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The Trump campaign's relationship with Hispanic and foreign media in general has been nearly nonexistent. | Getty TV Azteca reporter removed from Trump Tower

UPDATE 5/17/2016:

Journalist Marcos Stupenengo clarified in a tweet late Monday that "no personal interview was canceled. A film request was approved by phone and denied on site."

TV Azteca said in a statement Tuesday afternoon that Stupenengo was on site to film B-roll and speak to staffers:

"Marcos Stupenengo, a freelance reporter for TV Azteca, was working on a segment about how campaign headquarters operate. He received verbal confirmation from the Trump campaign to shoot b-roll and interview staffers, which was denied to him when he arrived at the Trump headquarters in New York on Friday, May 13. Mr. Stupenengo never requested a one-on-one interview with Mr. Trump."

A well-known international correspondent, Marcos Stupenengo, was removed from Trump Tower in New York on Monday despite having secured an interview with Donald Trump, BuzzFeed News reports.

Stupenengo, who has more than 1 million Twitter followers, was working for TV Azteca, a Mexican television network. According to BuzzFeed, Stupenengo took a call while waiting for the interview to begin and spoke in Spanish. Soon after, the campaign "informed him they had no interest in taking part in an interview with him, according to a source with knowledge of the incident," BuzzFeed reported.

TV Azteca's spokesperson has not officially responded to the report, though CNN's Dylan Byers is reporting that Stupenengo "didn't really" have an interview scheduled, but was attempting to secure one.

Stupenengo was to say in his report to air on Monday night that he was kicked out of Trump headquarters because he was speaking Spanish.

The Trump campaign's relationship with Hispanic and foreign media in general has been nearly nonexistent. Trump himself famously argued with Univision anchor Jorge Ramos and subsequently kicked him out of a news conference, and the campaign routinely blocks foreign press from attending any of its events, including a foreign policy speech in Washington last month. As we reported earlier this month, foreign reporters have been kicked out of rallies after entering as regular attendees and often can't even get a basic response to their inquiries.

Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks denied an interview had even been scheduled.

"There was no interview scheduled. We do not know this individual or anything about the alleged situation" Hicks wrote in an email.

