El Último Rey: judge denied protection to Televisa to broadcast bioseries

The controversy surrounding Vicente Fernández's unofficial bioseries, El último rey, has risen to the courts of Mexico, as lawyers on both sides keep alive the legal remedies to broadcast or ban the series.

In the most recent round, representatives of the Fernández dynasty, Del Toro Carazo, reported through the late singer's social networks that Televisa would have filed an application for amparo to be able to broadcast the series , after allegedly assuring that they had not received any notification.

On the other hand, according to the firm, representatives of the television company said that “all they knew was what this Fernández family law firm had published in a press release.”

“The falsity with which they conducted themselves before society is unheard of. Of course, they were and continue to be notified that they cannot transmit their illegal product,” said the representatives of Doña Cuquita and family.

The foregoing, after having filed an application for amparo on Sunday, March 13, 2022, in which they appeal to acts prohibited by Article 22 of the Constitution, such as flogging, torture, shooting, excessive fines, etc.

According to the lawyers, the lawsuit asked the amparo judge to grant a suspension because they fear that the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property (IMPI) will attack them with excessive fines.

“In other words, they implicitly recognize that they will violate the measures imposed on them and that they fear that such conduct will result in excessive fines. A complete impudence,” the lawyers added.

In this regard, they stressed that the company itself accepted, with the complaint, that IMPI imposed measures, still in force, on GRUPO TELE VISA S.A.B., TELEVISA S.R.L. DE C.V, EDITORIAL TELEVISA S.A.DE C.V. and TELEVIMEX SA DE C.V. against the transmission of the bioseries.

However, the agreement of the Seventeenth District Judge on Administrative Matters in Mexico City, issued in file 429/2022, dismissed the lawsuit and did not grant the suspension, in addition to granting 5 days to comply with the precautions.

“We will review the detail since the possibility of a crime under the Amparo Law is warned,” the law firm warned.

And they concluded: “We find it inexplicable that they came out publicly on Monday the 14th to claim that they were not notified of the measures that prohibited them and continue to prohibit going out with this illegal bioseries.”

For her part, Cuquita Abarca, the singer's widow, recently pointed out that there is no censorship for the series El Último Rey, but rather that the family's refusal to have the production broadcast is due to a “theme of dignity” and recognition of the name inherited by the Charro de Huentitán.

Through a statement on the social networks of the late interpreter, Abarca Villaseñor stressed that neither she nor her children want “not a penny from Televisa” or a tribute to Fernández, since she indicated that, from her perspective, these are economic issues and accused them of allegedly “stealing their image”.

Likewise, it was sad that “gentlemen who said they were friends and shared bread at our table” had devised a plan to “steal” the rights of the singer from Jalisco when he was hospitalized: “I would like to see that they had tried to do it when he was alive!” .

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