🏴‍☠️ Televisa Leaks and Balkan encroachment

QUESTION OF THE WEEK

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.

IN THIS ISSUE

• Mexican broadcast giant Televisa accused of reputational hit jobs

• How crime groups from the Balkans are settling in Latin America

The leaks tormenting Televisa, Mexico’s largest TV company

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.

🌎 LatAm Report