Former Fujimori Ally Laura Bozzo Faces
Deportation from Mexico
teleSUR English, July 23, 2015
Laura Bozzo has been embroiled in
numerous scandals and faced criticism for misusing public
resources.
Controversial and influential Peruvian
TV presenter Laura Bozzo could be expelled from Mexico for the
“inappropriate” content of her show, the Mexican press reports on
Thursday.
Bozzo has been embroiled in numerous
scandals and faced criticism for misusing public resources and for
the violence in her shows.
The Interior Ministry has announced
that the permanent commission at the Congress is analyzing a
request
made by a lawmaker of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PDR)
for an “exhaustive" analysis on the content of Laura Bozzo TV
show “Laura,” which is transmitted by the Mexican broadcaster
Televisa throughout the Spanish speaking world.
If the Congress determines that the
content of her TV show is inappropriate, it could be canceled and
she
may face deportation under the article 33 of the Mexican
Constitution, which establishes that under a series of violations,
the Mexican State can ask foreigners to “abandon the national
territory immediately and without the necessity of previous legal
action.”
Since the early 90's Laura Bozzo has
produced
and hosted successful talk shows that have made her a prominent
figure in Latin America, however the credibility of her
sensationalist TV shows has been called into question due to their
subject's far-fetched stories.
Similarly to the Jerry Springer show
in
the U.S., some accuse her of hiring actors to play “real” people
to increase the drama.
Bozzo was arrested in Peru in 2002 on
charges of corruption and accused of receiving millions of dollars
during the dictatorship of Alberto Fujimori. She spent almost
three
years in house arrest in the studios Monitor of Lima, from where
she
broadcast her TV show. After being acquitted she fled to Mexico,
where she obtained a millionaire contract with the media-giant
Televisa to continue her show, though she still faces embezzlement
charges in Peru.
She was also accused in 2013 of using,
for her own benefit, official government helicopters during a
telecast undermining rescue attempts during the relief efforts for
the Hurricane Manuel strike. The helicopters used by Bozzo
belonged
to the government of the State of Mexico, ruled by the
largely-criticized Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI),
Mexico's
ruling political party which Laura is also believed to have close
ties with.
The case was disclosed by the renowned
journalist Carmen Aristegui, in response Bozzo sent an aggressive
televised-message against Aristegui, calling her a liar, she
claimed
to love Mexico as her own country and said she was "more Mexican
that any Mexican." Her statements prompted a wave of aggressions
on social networks with millions of Mexicans demanding her
expulsion
under the hashtag #LauraBozzoFueraDeMexico (Laura Bozzo out of
Mexico).
Last year it was reported that Bozzo
didn't fulfill with the requirements asked by Mexico for the
naturalization process, and so, her application was rejected.
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