Overview

• A Mexican appeals tribunal ruled that Penguin Random House must publish Grupo Televisa’s full right of reply in Las Señoras del Narco across print, digital and audio editions.
• The tribunal imposed a 500,000-peso fine and awarded 40% of the book’s sales to Violeta Vizcarra over the contested claims.
• This is the first time Mexico’s strengthened Ley de Réplica has been applied to an editorial book, signaling stricter evidence requirements for future publications.
• Sources say Televisa is preparing collective defamation lawsuits in Mexico, the UK and the US that will also address alleged gender-based harms to actresses.
• A judicial panel rejected Random House’s proposal to confine corrections to Televisa’s own outlets by ruling that remedies must appear where the original content was published.