Overview
- At a Sept. 6 Senate event tied to the Escuela de Formación por la Paz y la Democracia, UAEM student Victoria Montes de Oca accused Senator Gerardo Fernández Noroña of misogyny and hypocrisy, citing an alleged 12‑million‑peso house in Tepoztlán.
- In a Sept. 7 livestream, Fernández Noroña rejected the remark attributed to him about Lilly Téllez and argued that personal austerity is not his obligation, urging checks of Senate transcripts for verification.
- He asserted the confrontation was engineered by political opponents and media, naming the Yunque, PRI leader Alejandro “Alito” Moreno, and businessman Ricardo Salinas Pliego with TV Azteca.
- Montes de Oca issued a communiqué describing her intervention as a civic critique and later reported online harassment following the exchange.
- Téllez publicly supported the student as the incident spread widely on social platforms and stirred discussion about misinformation and AI‑generated content.