In Mexico, major media outlets such as El Universal, Televisa, El Heraldo de México, Milenio, and Radio Fórmula have failed to cover the Palestinian genocide and have erected a suffocating media siege in complicity with Israel. They hide the Holocaust, which UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese estimates at 680,000 dead. Of these, 75% are women and children.
Mexican media conglomerates, owners of 40-74% of the national audience, opt for “neutrality” to safeguard ratings and contracts. Their silence condemns 130 million Mexicans to ignorance, replicating a global pattern.
Televisa, under the Azcárraga family, merged with Univision in 2021, injecting billions from Haim Saban, a pro-Israel mogul who calls himself a “one-issue guy” for his Zionism. Saban used Univision for propaganda, silencing Palestinian voices among Latino audiences, an echo that resonates in lukewarm reports about “Hamas attacks” with no mention of 1.5 million displaced people or 1,581 aid workers killed. Globally, 70-80% of news comes from Israeli briefings, as the UN denounces, perpetuating the dehumanization of Palestinians as “terrorists.”
The scandalous Mexico-Israel relationship accelerates this silence. The 2000 Free Trade Agreement boosted bilateral trade to more than US$1 billion annually by 2025, with Israel as a key partner in technology and agriculture. But the dark core is the weapons: from 2006 to 2018, Israel exported 24,000 pistols and rifles to Mexico for the police, fueling drug violence. In 2024, Mexico imported US$20.3 million in Israeli military equipment, including drones and ammunition used in Gaza.
Today, September 22, 2025, a historic turning point: at her morning press conference, Claudia Sheinbaum called the massacre in Gaza “genocide” for the first time, urging an end to the aggression before the UN and recognizing Palestine. “Let’s stop this genocide,” she cried, aligning herself with Chile and 12 nations in Bogotá against arms to Israel. But the corporate media dilutes it.
Contrast this with independent media like La Jornada, which headlines “Stop the Genocide” and details 680,000 victims with testimonies from humanitarian flotillas.
Mexican society, 72% of whom consume news daily, remains blind to this holocaust. Radio Fórmula, with 32 million listeners, dedicates seconds to Gaza versus hours to local gossip. El Universal, receiving 240 million pesos in government advertising, remains silent so as not to bite the hand that finances—and buys—Israeli weapons. Owners like Ealy Ortiz and González of Milenio protect family interests, not the truth. Globally, the Israeli blockade of reporters since 2023 generates misinformation: 70% of coverage uses “Israeli defense” without counterbalance, as Albanese warns.
This global media siege, financed by lobbies and weapons, obscures the 428 deaths from hunger at aid stations in Gaza. In Mexico, the Azcárraga families prioritize alliances with Sabrán, and as a result, Mexicans are misinformed and become unwitting accomplices in a crime that Albanese calls “colonial erasure.”