Carmen Aristegui, The Lawsuit from MVS Against Peña Nieto's #CasaBlanca Book

Carmen Aristegui, exposing the current situation of #EPN's #CasaBlanca

Some important excerpts.

"Mexican president, EPN, asked an apology for the #CasaBlanca this week... Valued in 7 million dollars [...] this house, was financed and constructed by Juan Armando Hinojosa Cantú, the businessman that has seen his fortune grow by all the appointed contracts by the government and obtained through Peña Nieto's presidency period [...]

The president said he had made a mistake [...] Just like that. In any other country, with a real rule of law, an independent investigation would have already taken place, an impeachment, a political trial and most probably, the president would have been forced to resign.

But not in Mexico. In Mexico, the president still holds it's position and the journalists that participated on the #CasaBlanca investigation report [...] were fired and taken off the air from the Mexican radio. We have realised, we might not or might come back to air until this six year period is over and we have decided to develop an independent project publishing from the digital space, but it has to be stated, at the moment when this initiative was announced, the lashing, the harassment and the judicial prosecution was intensified and by which our work has been punished. This is what we want to denounce, this is the reason for our message.

In the last few weeks there has been stacked upon, a constant accumulation of judicial lawsuits against us that now reach insurmountable levels. [...] But today, out is pretended by means of the judicial system, to mutilate a book, the book about Peña Nieto's #CasaBlanca, with the extraction of it's prologue. The lawsuits action is against the publisher and the publishing house that dared to print it. The plaintiff establishes to compensate any moral damage, [...] along with the point of compensating an indeterminate economical damage that could have been caused to the president (which most likely be millionaire) but it is pretended to ban anyone to speak about it on the radio, on T.V. or even through conferences. Just like that. With all it's letters. To prohibit. 

 [Mr President] You ask forgiveness for the #CasaBlanca, but the reporters that wrote the report are still being harassed? You ask forgiveness for the #CasaBlanca but the thirst for vengeance does not seem to end? Mr. President, stop rocking that cradle.

[...] Mexico has a right to express itself without ties, and to be informed about the news of public interest. It has the right to read, if it wants to, a book like the #CasaBlanca that is not mutilated. Our country is not a place that allows more censorship, authoritarianism and vengeance. [...] But we'll say it again: Let there be no doubt, this battle is for our freedom."

International Press: [NY Times]  [The Washington Post] [The Guardian]