Sacked Mexican Journalist in Censorship Row Says Bosses Tried to Block Story World Bulletin
go to original March 23, 2015

A Mexican broadcast news journalist, fired after helping to reveal a conflict of interest scandal that embarrassed the country's president, said her former employer tried to suppress the report before she published it on her own website.

Last year, Aristegui's team at MVS news network revealed both first lady Angelica Rivera and Pena Nieto had bought or used homes owned by a major government contractor, Grupo Higa.

Subsequent reports in other media showed that Finance Minister Luis Videgaray also bought a house from Grupo Higa.

Aristegui, who was fired after MVS objected to her using the company's name in conjunction with a posting on a Wikileaks-style website, told Mexican news magazine Proceso that her employer had tried to persuade her to drop the original story about Rivera's luxury home.

"There was a request that this work was not put out on MVS. There was a really tense and complex situation between us. Not in an imposing or imperative tone, more an attempt for me to 'show understanding'," she said inProceso's latest edition, published this weekend.

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