Shackled by Deceit: The Dark Tale of Three Corrupt Yokes

The tycoon Claudio because in his misfortune he is joined by two other heirs of clans whose fortunes accumulated by compliance with political power and through corruption also bring them together: Ricardo Salinas Pliego and Emilio Azcárraga Jean , owners of the media emporiums Televisa and Televisión Azteca.

This trio of younger children are having a hard time because of their own decisions and, above all, because Mexico has changed. The country is no longer the same as when they or their oligarch parents received so many concessions from the PRIAN-dominated State, especially with Carlos Salinas de Gortari, and now all three are bankrupt economically, politically and/or morally.

For the first time in the history of Televisa, which was formally born in 1973 and was previously Telesistema Mexicano, it will not be chaired by a member of the Azcárraga family, because the third Emilio of the dynasty had to separate from the presidency of the group to face in the United States the corruption investigation in which it is directly involved together with the Federation of the International Football Association (FIFA).

The collapse of Televisa’s share price, almost to the level of garbage, demonstrates the decline of this powerful media emporium that grew exponentially through franchises.

gies given by the Mexican State in exchange for widely documented collusion based on information manipulation, concealment and lying.

Example: A month before PRI member Enrique Peña Nieto left the Presidency of the Republic, in November 2018, the Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) extended the concessions of Televisa and Azteca Television for 20 years until 2042, which allows them to continue making money with the TV rubbish they produce in an environment where fewer and fewer people prefer their products.

The crisis of the Televisa Group is also that of Televisión Azteca, the second media emporium in Mexico chaired by Salinas Pliego, a young man who has made the Salinas Group and the Elektra Group grow with habits that even other businessmen, also scoundrels, hate and hates them. they avoid being associated with the.

Heir to the Elektra Group that was born to avoid paying taxes – as the head of the clan himself, Hugo Salinas Price, admitted in his memoirs – and the TV concessions that Salinas de Gortari gave him, Ricardo Salinas Pliego will have to pay in time weeks or months at least 35 billion pesos, half of his enormous debt with the Mexican treasury, which endangers the viability of his economic and media emporium.

Salinas Pliego must also pay the 400 million dollars, plus interest – more than 8 billion pesos – that he borrowed in the United States in 2016 and that he stopped paying in 2021, with the support of the Mexican Judiciary, which her State has been sued to her. answer for that debt. Nice thing: All Mexicans have to pay for what they don’t want.

Members of the same oligarchy in Mexico, Azcárraga Jean and Salinas Pliego have communicated ships in order to protect their economic interests with González Guajardo, who became, since 2020, the head of the party, media, intellectual and academic opposition of Mexico to the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and now Sheinbaum.

Although González Guajardo is the corporate vice president of Televisa and the president of the Televisa Foundation thanks to the fact that his father, Claudio with the approval he made of his revenge with the President of Mexico.

“Don’t leave him, Claudio!” Salinas Pliego wrote on her and unfit.

González Guajardo and Salinas Pliego have in common, besides being the children of millionaire parents, calling themselves philanthropists. In fact, they have turned charity into a business, based on public and private resources worth millions of dollars to protect factional interests and, in the process, to wash their faces.

González Guajardo has founded the Business Union of Education Technology Entrepreneurs (UNETE), México Primero, the Office of Strategic Investigation and Litigation, and Mexicans against Corruption and Justice to promote the agendas of the business sector, while Salinas Pliego, With his Fundación Azteca, Festival de las Ideas and the Atlas Network, it spreads almost the same propaganda as the first.

With Azcárraga more discreet, the political convergence of the younger Salinas Pliego and González Guajardo will certainly intensify the former government of Mexico, as is very clear with the reform of the Judicial Branch of the Federation which has been and is the defender of its economic interests. .

The crises of these three juniors represent, in fact, the decline of the corrupt old regime that calls itself “resistance.”

Alvaro Delgado Gomez

Álvaro Delgado Gómez is a journalist, born in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, in 1966. He started in 1986 as a reporter and has worked in the editorial offices of El Financiero, El Nacional and El Universal. In November 1994 he joined the weekly Proceso as a reporter, where he was head of Political Information and specialized in dealing with political issues. He has written several books, including El Yunque, the extreme right in power (Plaza and Janés); God’s Army (Plaza and Janés) and Deception. Preaching and practicing the PAN (Grijalbo). The amasiato. The Peña-Calderón secret agreement and another PAN betrayal (Editorial Proceso) is his latest book.

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