Activist Group Pleads 'Please Don't Sell our Beloved Chivas to Carlos Slim' PR Newswire
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Slim Protest - Oct 6,2013 (ramirezgroup)

On Sunday, October 6, hundreds of Chivas' fans and Two Countries One Voice – an organization of Latino community leaders and advocates – held a press conference outside Stub Hub stadium, in which they read a letter addressed to Chiva's co-owners, Jorge Vergara and Angelica Fuentes, begging the husband-wife duo not to sell the Chivas franchise to Carlos Slim.  TCOV revealed a pledge requesting that the co-owners sign it before the protesters proceeded into the stadium, donning Slim masks and staging a half-time rally chanting "Chivas si, Carlos Slim no."

"While Two Countries One Voice recognizes that Mr. Vergara and Ms. Fuentes may want to sell the franchise someday, we are begging them to please sell Chivas to anyone BUT Slim," TCOV co-founder, Juan Jose Gutierrez stated emphatically.

This past spring, there were media reports that Slim was interested in Chivas while he was acquiring ownership stakes in Club Pachuca and Club Leon.  When asked about selling the franchise to Slim, Chivas' co-owner, Jorge Vergara, admitted in an August 20 interview that "anything is possible."

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