1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:09,040 Speaker 1: Today's episode is a little different. It's the first of 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:13,840 Speaker 1: two Bonus Conversations, moments that take us behind the story 3 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:18,720 Speaker 1: to understand how the Legion of Christ operated not just 4 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: as a religious order, but as a silent, all encompassing power. 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: Sometimes I forget how much power Mazielle and the Legion 6 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: once had in Mexico. It wasn't just about faith or education. 7 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:41,880 Speaker 1: It was political, economic, and cultural. They built an empire, 8 00:00:42,560 --> 00:00:46,239 Speaker 1: universities for the elite, schools for the next generation of 9 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:52,560 Speaker 1: movers and shakers, and organizations that looked untouchable from the outside. 10 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,120 Speaker 1: But what they really controlled wasn't just institutions. It was 11 00:00:58,240 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 1: this story, story and who got to tell it. For decades, 12 00:01:05,720 --> 00:01:12,560 Speaker 1: that control reached deep into the media. Editors, reporters, publishers. 13 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:17,399 Speaker 1: Everyone knew the red lines, the invisible limit between what 14 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:23,000 Speaker 1: could be said about Masielle and what couldn't. His name 15 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:28,360 Speaker 1: opened doors, and it closed them to Crossing him could 16 00:01:28,520 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: mean losing everything, a job, a reputation, a career, and 17 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:42,320 Speaker 1: silence was bought and sold like currency. Even now, journalism 18 00:01:42,440 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 1: in Mexico can feel like walking a tirope. Many who 19 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:51,280 Speaker 1: tried to question the powerful learned that truth could be dangerous, 20 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: and when it came to Marseille, few dared to ask 21 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,840 Speaker 1: questions at all. One of the few people who dared 22 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 1: to challenge that power was Journally see do dot comez Leva. 23 00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:11,200 Speaker 1: He's been reporting for more than forty years, politics, organized crime, corruption. 24 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: He's seeing what happens when you push too far and 25 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:23,920 Speaker 1: what telling the truth can cost you. This is a 26 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 1: bonus episode of Sacred Scandal. The next two episodes will 27 00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:33,360 Speaker 1: be different. Their conversations interviews with people who helped us 28 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: understand how the Legion of Christ really worked, not just 29 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: as religious order, but as a media institution and as 30 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 1: a cult. In this episode, you'll hear Stido talk with 31 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: journalist Roberta Arza about the night Mexican television broke the 32 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:57,079 Speaker 1: silence around marcill Maziel and about everything that came after. 33 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 1: My name is Elena Sada and this is secret Scandal, 34 00:03:07,160 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: the many secrets of Marcelle Macil. Episode eleven interview with 35 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 1: Czido Gomez Leva. We'll be back after a short break. 36 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: This conversation was recorded by Roberta Garza earlier this year. 37 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 1: You'll hear her voice asking the questions and Zido answering 38 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 1: in Spanish. Our producer Alvaro Espedes will translate Zido's answers 39 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,720 Speaker 1: so you can follow the conversation as it happened. 40 00:03:48,920 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: El dos de Mario Dello and basi it I remember 41 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 2: it was the twelfth of May of nineteen eighty seven. 42 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: Channel forty Your channel, what the first to broadcast the 43 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 2: notice of Marcel Marseille's abuses. You were the first media 44 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 2: in Mexico that published it. That blew the story up 45 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 2: national level, as. 46 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 3: He had Likestoria labiano concerre missus santis. 47 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:16,640 Speaker 4: The original story had come out a few months earlier, 48 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 4: in February of that same year. It was first published 49 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 4: by the Hartford Current by journalists Jason Barry and Gerald Brenner. 50 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 4: In Mexico, the first outlet to follow that story was 51 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 4: the left leaning newspaper La Jornade, but Zio's team at 52 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 4: Canal Quarinta were the first to take it to national television, 53 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 4: even though there was huge pressure not too. 54 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: At that time, the Legion was one of the most 55 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: powerful religious groups in Mexico, deeply connected to business elites, politicians, 56 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: and major media networks. Putting that report on air was 57 00:04:54,440 --> 00:04:58,400 Speaker 1: a rare act of defiance in a country where almost 58 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: no one there to question Nasia's image as a living saint. 59 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,520 Speaker 2: Can you tell us what kind of pressure he was 60 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:06,320 Speaker 2: subjected to? 61 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,080 Speaker 3: La Prescium, Bino and Premier were part The first notice 62 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:13,840 Speaker 3: came straight from the Legionaries of Christ, specifically from the 63 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:17,880 Speaker 3: president of the university in Mexico City, Universidada and IWAK. 64 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:22,360 Speaker 4: Representatives from the Legion even went to the newsroom in person. 65 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 4: They told the team that the accusations against Masielle were 66 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 4: completely false, that it was all part of an effort 67 00:05:29,279 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 4: to damage the Legion and by extension, to harm the 68 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:38,120 Speaker 4: Catholic Church. But it didn't stop there. Soon government officials 69 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,600 Speaker 4: started getting involved too. Even though Mexico is supposed to 70 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,760 Speaker 4: be a secular state, we can't really say that the 71 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 4: government we had in ninety seven was left wing, but 72 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 4: it also wasn't a government known for defending the Catholic 73 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:51,720 Speaker 4: Church either. 74 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,720 Speaker 1: Back in nineteen ninety seven, the country was still tightly 75 00:05:56,880 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: ruled by the Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRE, which had 76 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:06,560 Speaker 1: held power for more than seventy years. It wasn't a 77 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 1: religious or conservative government, but it still stepped in to 78 00:06:10,920 --> 00:06:16,120 Speaker 1: protect the Legion's image and that Zio says showed just 79 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 1: how far their influence reached. 80 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:22,640 Speaker 3: Pamiel receives imbitas. 81 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 4: As the air date got closer, the team started getting 82 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,680 Speaker 4: quote unquote invitations not to run the story. Then the 83 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:36,200 Speaker 4: pressure increased, coming from big private companies whose founders and 84 00:06:36,360 --> 00:06:40,799 Speaker 4: CEOs were sympathizers of the Legion of Christ. Their message 85 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,880 Speaker 4: was simple, if Canal Quarenta aired the report, they'd pulled 86 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 4: their ads, and some of them actually did so. The 87 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,200 Speaker 4: pressure came from three sites, first the legionaries of Christ, 88 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,920 Speaker 4: then from top government officials, and finally from powerful private corporations. 89 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 1: That last one, the threat of losing add money, turned 90 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,560 Speaker 1: out to be the most effective form of censorship. 91 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:12,040 Speaker 2: Were those threats very explicit, like did they actually tell 92 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 2: you if you don't pull the program out, we will, 93 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 2: you know, with throw the payment, we will take our 94 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,120 Speaker 2: commercial business elsewhere? Was it that clear or was he 95 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 2: sort of a veil threat? 96 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 3: And las ultimosuras for Gladysim it. 97 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,120 Speaker 4: Was completely explicit. In the last few days before the broadcast, 98 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 4: the calls kept coming, people repeating the same message, don't 99 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 4: air it. It's a lie, it's an attack on the Legion. 100 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:41,640 Speaker 4: You'll heard a saint, you'll offend the faith of millions 101 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 4: of Mexicans. And then came the warning, if you go 102 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:48,560 Speaker 4: ahead with it, the advertisers will pull out. 103 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:55,320 Speaker 1: In Mexico, television survives almost entirely on add money, so 104 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: a threat like that could be devastating, and it showed 105 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: just how coordinated the censorship campaign had become. In those 106 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:09,320 Speaker 1: final hours, representantez La Princes. 107 00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 3: The Las Emprisos conquer tamine is to stop Latica. 108 00:08:14,640 --> 00:08:17,600 Speaker 4: One of the most influential businessmen in Mexico at the time, 109 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,720 Speaker 4: Lorenzo Serviitke, the late founder and president of Group of IMBO, 110 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 4: personally reached out, speaking on behalf of several major advertisers 111 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:30,320 Speaker 4: he had rallied to Massile's cause. Not all of them 112 00:08:30,360 --> 00:08:34,199 Speaker 4: followed through with the boycott, but some did. In the 113 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:38,400 Speaker 4: final hours, it was Lorenzo's brother, Roberto Servitke, who took 114 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 4: the lead, expressing his supposition to the program in much stronger, 115 00:08:43,080 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 4: less diplomatic terms. Despite all the warnings and the loss 116 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 4: of advertising, Ciro and his team decided to go ahead. 117 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 4: They aired the program anyway and accepted the consequences. 118 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:58,160 Speaker 1: We'll be back after a short break. 119 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,079 Speaker 2: A part of a woman as much so, apart from 120 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:17,000 Speaker 2: the economical boycott that you were subjected, that the channel 121 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 2: was objected to. Were there any other threats any more, 122 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 2: concrete threads against maybe your life, physical threats or was 123 00:09:24,320 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 2: it just a commercial kind of thing? Better? 124 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 4: On the very afternoon the program was scheduled to air, 125 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:35,120 Speaker 4: just a few hours before broadcast, Sita's wife received an 126 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:38,920 Speaker 4: anonymous phone call at their home. The message was simple 127 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,760 Speaker 4: and chilling. It would be better not to wear the 128 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 4: program as they knew where they lived. While such intimidation 129 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:49,480 Speaker 4: might sadly feel routine in Mexico today, back in nineteen 130 00:09:49,520 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 4: ninety seven, it was not. Back then. It was shocking, 131 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 4: a clear attempt to silence through fear. The threat was 132 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:58,480 Speaker 4: completely anonymous. 133 00:09:59,440 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 2: Now you he told us that the government, the Mexican 134 00:10:02,000 --> 00:10:05,439 Speaker 2: government was actively soliciting you on the channel and the 135 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 2: channel's owner to kill then note to not broadcast it. 136 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 2: But it was there any other like concrete threats or 137 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 2: was it just an ask Yamada? 138 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 4: There was, in fact a phone call from Levano Science, 139 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 4: the private secretary to then President Tornetto Selijo, essentially one 140 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:30,360 Speaker 4: of the most powerful figures in the administration others, like 141 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,800 Speaker 4: officials from the Communications and Transportation Ministry, also reached out. 142 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:39,040 Speaker 4: At that time, that office had the authority to complicate 143 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,439 Speaker 4: or even revoke a television station's broadcast license, so their 144 00:10:43,480 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 4: involvement carried a real weight. Still, not everyone inside the 145 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:51,760 Speaker 4: government opposed them. The Secretary of Education personical to tell them, 146 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:54,720 Speaker 4: don't back down, stand on the side of the truth. 147 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,679 Speaker 4: Levano's Science has also stated that President Slijo told him 148 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,800 Speaker 4: that any approach to Canal Quarinta had to be done personally, 149 00:11:04,440 --> 00:11:05,880 Speaker 4: not as an official directive. 150 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: It was a tense and confusing moment. Some officials openly 151 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,079 Speaker 1: defended the Legion of Christ. Others urged the journalists to 152 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,160 Speaker 1: move forward. But the message from those closest to the 153 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 1: legion wasn't mistakable. They didn't want to hear arguments or 154 00:11:25,520 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: evidence or prove. 155 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:31,679 Speaker 2: An efficient PARAA. It might be a little difficult for 156 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,079 Speaker 2: people here in the United States, specially in the United States, 157 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:37,160 Speaker 2: to think that a religious order or an institution of 158 00:11:37,240 --> 00:11:40,199 Speaker 2: that sort would have that much power, power enough to 159 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:45,000 Speaker 2: kill a whole news station, to just run it to 160 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 2: the ground. How could you help us explain the control 161 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:52,360 Speaker 2: that the legionaries of Christ the whole that they had 162 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:54,480 Speaker 2: over the power circles in Mexico. 163 00:11:57,440 --> 00:12:01,080 Speaker 4: The imbalance was enormous. They were Elaiath and we were 164 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 4: David Canal Quarinta was a very popular but still small, 165 00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,720 Speaker 4: independent station, and the Legionaries were one of the most 166 00:12:08,880 --> 00:12:13,520 Speaker 4: powerful institutions in the country. Their influence reached into every 167 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:19,319 Speaker 4: major sphere, business, education, and government. Marcell Moziel was a 168 00:12:19,440 --> 00:12:23,439 Speaker 4: figure of absolute authority, the kind of men who accompanied 169 00:12:23,520 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 4: top business leaders and politicians at weddings, gallas, and state events. 170 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 4: Wherever Mexico's elide gathered, Mazill was there. The Legionaries' universities 171 00:12:34,080 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 4: like Universidada and Nawak boasted their academic excellence and their 172 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 4: ability to cultivate the next generation of power brokers, all 173 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,920 Speaker 4: while keeping them safe from modern secular ideological threats and 174 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 4: in step with the best Christian values. 175 00:12:50,240 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: The order projected sophistication, discipline, and moral prestige, and that 176 00:12:56,440 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: was their currency. They saw the idea of success as 177 00:13:00,360 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: with a divine seal of approval. 178 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 3: It's a poler comments. 179 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 4: For years that made them untouchable, but that power began 180 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 4: to crumble in nineteen ninety seven. The year Canal Quarenta 181 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:16,719 Speaker 4: aired its report. Back then, it was barely noticeable. The 182 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,079 Speaker 4: real collapse would come almost a decade later, after two 183 00:13:20,120 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 4: thousand and five and two thousand and six, when the 184 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:28,040 Speaker 4: Vatican finally sanctioned Mosiel, even if they wouldn't officially confirm 185 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 4: the accusations of sexual abuse, it was clear that Mosile's 186 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:36,319 Speaker 4: power inside the Vatican was vanishing. Sido calls it a 187 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 4: cataclysmic fall, not for the Legion as an institution, which 188 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:44,559 Speaker 4: managed to rebuild, but for Masil himself. He died ten 189 00:13:44,640 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 4: years after that broadcast disgrace and isolated, his saintly image 190 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 4: shattered beyond repair. 191 00:13:51,040 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 3: Peruiniste castle sie a yumpuntu. 192 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:58,000 Speaker 4: This case stands as undeniable proof of how a powerful 193 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,520 Speaker 4: organization led by a man who was ultimately confirmed to 194 00:14:01,600 --> 00:14:05,319 Speaker 4: be a serial sexual predator began to collapse because of 195 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,280 Speaker 4: the courage of just a handful of victims four five, 196 00:14:09,480 --> 00:14:13,000 Speaker 4: maybe seven people who had nothing to gain and everything 197 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:17,000 Speaker 4: to lose, decided to speak out. They found support from 198 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 4: a few journalists and media outlets in the United States 199 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 4: and Mexico who were willing to listen and publish their stories. 200 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 4: For years afterward, the legion managed to reimpose silence, to 201 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 4: bury the scandal on their influence and fear, but the 202 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 4: truth never disappeared. It remained there, just beneath the surface, and. 203 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: Eventually that truth brought about what Zido calls the defeat, 204 00:14:44,320 --> 00:14:49,760 Speaker 1: a total collapse of Marcial Maciel's personal empire, a catechism 205 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: for the man once held as a saint. We'll be 206 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,320 Speaker 1: back with another full interview on our next and final 207 00:14:57,480 --> 00:15:12,720 Speaker 1: episode of Sacred Scandal, Many Secrets of Marcel Massiere Secret Scandal. 208 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 1: The Many Secrets of Marcell Maseil is a production of 209 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: a half podcast in partnership with Iheartmichael Doula podcast Network, 210 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:25,200 Speaker 1: and is hosted by me Elena Sada, written by Menissa 211 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:29,160 Speaker 1: Hendrix and Alvalo sz Pedes, Produced by alvaaloce Pes and 212 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:34,120 Speaker 1: Robert Tagarza. Research and reporting by Robert Tagarza, edited by 213 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,960 Speaker 1: Jasmine Rometo with the help of Carmen Gratol, fact checking 214 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:41,800 Speaker 1: by Annapla Tovar. 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