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| Mexican media scandal: the cast of characters | Mexican media scandal: the cast of characters |
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| Read a joint statement about this story from the Guardian and Televisa here. | Read a joint statement about this story from the Guardian and Televisa here. |
| Enrique Peña Nieto | Enrique Peña Nieto |
| Frontrunner in Sunday's presidential election. Former governor for the State of Mexico and candidate for the rightwing Institutional Revolutionary party. Leads polls by more than 10 points. Has been accused by student protest movement of receiving biased media coverage. Turned campaign around after slow start in which he was ridiculed for being unable to name three books that had influenced his life, or state the price of tortillas. He denies having had a special realationship with Televisa. | Frontrunner in Sunday's presidential election. Former governor for the State of Mexico and candidate for the rightwing Institutional Revolutionary party. Leads polls by more than 10 points. Has been accused by student protest movement of receiving biased media coverage. Turned campaign around after slow start in which he was ridiculed for being unable to name three books that had influenced his life, or state the price of tortillas. He denies having had a special realationship with Televisa. |
| Andrés Manuel López Obrador | Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
| Presidential candidate of the left who alienated many with a prolonged effort to overturn the results of the 2006 election, which he narrowly lost. The Guardian has seen documents that suggest he was the victim of a smear campaign at the time. | Presidential candidate of the left who alienated many with a prolonged effort to overturn the results of the 2006 election, which he narrowly lost. The Guardian has seen documents that suggest he was the victim of a smear campaign at the time. |
| Luis Videgaray | Luis Videgaray |
| Luis Videgaray, campaign manager and master strategist for Enrique Peña Nieto, has steered the PRI candidate to the cusp of victory. A US-trained economist, he served as finance minister for Peña Nieto while he was governor of the State of Mexico before becoming a federal deputy and serving as president of the congressional budget and public accounts commission. | Luis Videgaray, campaign manager and master strategist for Enrique Peña Nieto, has steered the PRI candidate to the cusp of victory. A US-trained economist, he served as finance minister for Peña Nieto while he was governor of the State of Mexico before becoming a federal deputy and serving as president of the congressional budget and public accounts commission. |
| Alejandro Quintero | Alejandro Quintero |
| A vice-president of Televisa and an allegedly key figure in the brokering of promotional "packages" for political clients including media strategies, advertisement production and the adaptation of news bulletins, soap operas, game shows and other programmes on the network. He allegedly did this through an external company he partly owns called Grupo TV Promo, and its subsidiary Radar Servicios Especializados. A former Radar employee said the documentation was forged. | A vice-president of Televisa and an allegedly key figure in the brokering of promotional "packages" for political clients including media strategies, advertisement production and the adaptation of news bulletins, soap operas, game shows and other programmes on the network. He allegedly did this through an external company he partly owns called Grupo TV Promo, and its subsidiary Radar Servicios Especializados. A former Radar employee said the documentation was forged. |
| Alejandra Lagunes | Alejandra Lagunes |
| As director general of Televisa Interactive Media was allegedly a key figure in team Handcock, a secretive unit within Televisa that spearheaded an anonymous internet campaign designed to help Enrique Peña Nieto consolidate his bid to become PRI presidential candidate by seeking to produce resounding wins for the party in his state in the 2009 midterm congressional and local elections. She later left Televisa and is now officially part of Peña Nieta's campaign as "co-ordinator of digital and social network strategy". The PRI denies any special relationship betweeen Peña Nieta and Televisa. | As director general of Televisa Interactive Media was allegedly a key figure in team Handcock, a secretive unit within Televisa that spearheaded an anonymous internet campaign designed to help Enrique Peña Nieto consolidate his bid to become PRI presidential candidate by seeking to produce resounding wins for the party in his state in the 2009 midterm congressional and local elections. She later left Televisa and is now officially part of Peña Nieta's campaign as "co-ordinator of digital and social network strategy". The PRI denies any special relationship betweeen Peña Nieta and Televisa. |
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