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TV Azteca & Televisa Boycott AMLO Speech

Submitted April 7, 2005 - 12:51 pm by Al Giordano
Mexico's two national TV networks placed a virtual boycott this morning over the massive demonstration and speech by Mexico City Governor Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO, by initials) this morning from the overflowing Zocalo.

On TV Azteca, not one second of the speech was broadcast live.

On Televisa, only the first three minutes were aired and then cut.

The desafuero against Lopez Obrador is a ratings blockbuster. So why did the two networks boycott it?

Felix Fuentes of the daily El Universal explains:

On Monday the owners of Televisa and TV Azteca, Emilio Azcárraga Jean and Ricardo Salinas Pliego, respectively, were called to Los Pinos (the Mexican presidential palace). One doesn't need to guess the motive for the discussion.

Next it was the radio broadcasters' turn, and one of them commented: "The President told us: Andrés Manuel must be disappeared!"

Neither station has aired nary a minute of the proceedings now underway in the National Congress (since 10:15 this morning), where the "desafuero" will be debated for many hours and voted on today.

President Vicente Fox, one of the intellectual and material authors of this coup d'etat against Mexican democracy, in an attempt to change the subject, then fled to Rome for the memorial services for the pope.

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