🏴‍☠️ Televisa Leaks and Balkan encroachment

Mexican broadcast giant Televisa accused of reputational hit jobs. How crime groups from the Balkans are settling in Latin America

Last week, we asked which country Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo was born in — and none of you got it right! Responses were evenly split between Spain and Mexico, but the correct answer is Uruguay.

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The leaks tormenting Televisa, Mexico’s largest TV company

Televisa and TV Azteca form a duopoly over news broadcasting in Mexico. Photo: Alex Borderline/Shutterstock

Televisa and TV Azteca form a duopoly over news broadcasting in Mexico. Photo: Alex Borderline/Shutterstock

A bombshell investigative report from Mexico’s Aristegui Noticias has sent shockwaves through the country, alleging that media giant Grupo Televisa — the country’s largest television network — has secretly orchestrated smear campaigns and planted false information to attack the reputations of influential figures.

👉 Why it matters. Drawing on over five terabytes of leaked internal memos from 2018 to 2024 — a trove Aristegui Noticias says is twice the size of the Panama Papers — the so-called “Televisa Leaks” detail how the network targeted some of Mexico’s most prominent names. 

  • The alleged hit list includes telecom magnate and Mexico’s richest man Carlos Slim, and Ricardo Salinas Pliego, chairman of rival network TV Azteca.

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