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.
[Read more: SUNCA keeps washing its hands]
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.
