The sycophants of Frente Amplio reward themselves mercilessly

On Wednesday, May 28, 2025, Sin Piedad premiered: the new militant journalism program hosted by two confessed political operatives and produced by VTV, the channel owned by the businessman to whom Mujica, during his administration, forgave the multimillion-dollar debt he owed for tax evasion.

"Sin Pudor" would have been a better fit

Both Eduardo Preve and Diego González are politically active through journalism, and this is nothing new.

For years, Diego González González's "leftist sensibility" has made him very comfortable in the left-wing trenches of TV Ciudad. He now hosts La Aldea, a program that perceives itself as humorous but only causes secondhand embarrassment. Recently, María Rosa Oña (who plays the role of "comedian" in that failed program) tried to "lecture on the cultural battle" and ridicule libertarians, but she was completely dominated on social media and had to close her X account.

Let us recall that shameless statement made by Diego "de la curva" when he hosted La Letra Chica, another program from this municipal leftist den: on November 24, 2020, Mejor Dicho, a project by journalism students at the Catholic University of Uruguay, published on social media an excerpt from an interview in which he shamelessly stated: "we are a leftist program, I am leftist... we give our opinions from the place we believe is right."

Everyone knows that the Montevideo City Council's channel is extremely progressive and its purpose is to campaign for the national and international left, but this episode was, is, and will be outrageous: with the utmost disregard for the efforts of all taxpayers, he basically said that Montevideo residents' money was used to finance a leftist program.

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The other little gem is Eduardo Preve, he has a wonderful track record

On May 31, 2021, through Resolution No. 363/2021, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation hired him, with a monthly salary of $100,000, to work in the Communications Department. At that time, the Attorney General and Prosecutor General of the Nation was Jorge Díaz, who is the Deputy Secretary of the Presidency in the current Frente Amplio government.

But if this is not enough, let us look at Eduardo Preve's family: with such politicized roots, it must be very difficult to carry out impartial journalism.

His maternal grandmother, Ofelia Piegas, was a historian, researcher, and teacher of Salto history. Her work highlighted the importance of historical events from a social justice perspective, for example. She passed away in the middle of the electoral campaign, on May 1, 2024. On June 10, at an event in Salto, Yamandú Orsi mentioned that it was the first political event without her presence.

The loyal activism in Frente Amplio of the grandmother also descended to his father, Dr. Eduardo Preve Piegas, and his brother, Federico Preve, who joined some lists for this government term.

Dr. Preve Piegas was in 18th place on the 76 Progresistas list, for Montevideo, to join the Senate. His brother, Federico Preve, leader of the Magnolia sector, also ran for the legislature. He was sponsored by the MPP and is now a Deputy for the department of Canelones. Eduardo Preve is just another Frente Amplio activist, like the rest of his leftist family.

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Today for you, tomorrow for me

VTV Uruguay channel is owned by Tenfield S.A., a company founded in 1998 by Uruguayan businessman Francisco "Paco" Casal, along with former footballers Enzo Francescoli and Nelson Gutiérrez.

The relationship between former terrorist José Mujica and the businessman was very close. So close that Mujica, during his disastrous administration, signed a resolution to annul a multimillion-dollar lawsuit the businessman faced for failing to meet tax obligations.

In 2013, José Mujica forgave Paco Casal the debt of more than US$10 million with the General Tax Directorate (DGI) for evading taxes in the transfer of economic rights of professional players.

The ridiculous justification of the late MPP leader was that Casal was preparing to sue the State and it was more convenient to forgive the debt and "defend the money of Uruguayans who would have had to pay for it." Thus, at the time, the former Tupamaro closed the case to "avoid lawsuits against the State," acknowledging that Casal did not defraud the treasury. As unbelievable as it is true.

In your honor, old man: a program so the microphone lambs can continue your legacy

Casal's visits to the farm were frequent. It is very likely that, among the last ones, the former terrorist collected the "small" favor he did for the businessman.

Frente Amplio has suffered a major blow: the death of the leader of the largest political force within the left-wing coalition. For some time, they have been preparing to face the leadership vacuum by devising strategies to revive a party with anachronistic ideas that is rotting from within.

They are running out of ammunition: yesterday they launched a program lacking talent and disrespectful to journalism: investigative journalism without filters, without interests? Seriously? Their investigations and speeches are blatantly politicized to the left; it is not even necessary to go through the Preve family tree or Diego González's past statements to realize that they are leftist activists with a microphone.

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The left is nervous. It knows there is a change of course. It is aware that the cultural battle to defend the ideas of freedom is gaining more and more ground around the world and, from luxurious trenches built with part of the money not paid to the treasury, they launch mediocre programs that not even their relatives watch.