Mexican journalist and Penguin sued in bid to ban sale of bombshell book
Source: Guardian
Mexican journalist and Penguin sued in bid to ban sale of bombshell book
Journalist Carmen Aristegui led team that revealed in 2014 that Mexico’s first lady had bought $7m mansion from contractor with links to her husband
David Agren in Mexico City
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Friday 22 July 2016 09.55 EDT
A prominent Mexican journalist and her publisher, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, are being sued in an attempt to force them to remove a bombshell political investigation from the country’s bookstores.
The book La Casa Blanca de Peña Nieto is based on an exposé by a team led by journalist Carmen Aristegui which revealed in 2014 that the country’s first lady had purchased a $7m mansion from a prominent contractor with close links to her husband, President Enrique Peña Nieto.
The scandal over the property – known as the White House, or Casa Blanca – sent Peña Nieto’s popularity plunging to historically low levels and wrecked his reputation internationally as a reform-minded president.
Soon after breaking the story, however, Aristegui was abruptly fired from her popular morning radio show. At the time, she accused her former employers, MVS radio, of bowing to pressure from Peña Nieto – an allegation repeated in the prologue of the book, which was published last October. MVS Radio has denied it gave way to pressure.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/mexico-journalist-penguin-sued-casa-blanca-pena-nieto
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