Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui returns to radio

After a 3 and a half year absence , Mexican journalist Carmen Aristegui has announced her return to national radio starting Wednesday, October 17, with a show called “Aristegui En Vivo” (Aristegui Live) .

The news portal “Aristegui Noticias” announced an alliance with the Radio Centro Group to broadcast an informative space Monday through Friday from 7 to 10 in the morning on 97.7 FM radio .

Aristegui informed that she would continue to broadcast from her facilities, where she currently produces a news program online. Radio Centro Group will pick up her signal to broadcast through the 97.7 frequency in Mexico City , with repeaters in all 32 states of the country .

In a press conference, Juan Aguirre, member of the Radio Centro Group’s Board of Directors , offered absolute freedom of expression so that Aristegui could continue her journalistic activities.

“This is a historic moment. We believe that, ever since Carmen Aristegui left the commercial radio, she left a void among millions of Mexicans . This is why we believe that, from the start, this will be the news program with the most listeners in all of the Mexican Republic,” claimed Aguirre.

Aristegui celebrated the end of President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration

, claiming she had been censored by the government and kicked off the air when she was working with MVS News after her story on Peña Nieto’s “White House.”

She stated that her research would have been enough to force any other president to face an impeachment trial for corruption, but in Mexico, nothing happened.

Furthermore, the journalist thanked President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his pledge to protect freedom of speech

during his upcoming six-year period, admitting that her return to the radio, along with journalist José Gutiérrez Vivó , was a good thing. She then clarified that her alliance with Radio Centro had been in the making for several months.

Aguirre trusted that she would reach an agreement with journalist José Gutiérrez Vivó during the next few days regarding the disputes brought upon by their fallout.

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