The young Mexican LGOF In July, he accused producer Nacho Cano of “taking advantage of our culture and our people,” referring to the production of Malinchein which she was one of 18 Mexican scholarship holders expelled for failing to meet requirements.
He did so in a 25-minute video that he uploaded to his YouTube channel and to which EL ESPAÑOL had access, since it is freely accessible.
They were their first public explanations on what happened after the producer was arrested following the complaint she filed with the national police after being expelled from the scholarship program Malinche.
The fragmented video was also posted on his Instagram account. Graduate L. denounces Nacho Cano: Let’s not romanticize slaveryThe young woman also said that “Mexicans we cannot allow them to conquer us again“, and “we must be united,” then referring to the fact that she trusted that the rest of the Mexican scholarship holders would support her, which did not happen.
LGOF explained what happened Sunday December 17a few days before the expulsion was communicated to him. He said that the next day, Monday, there were no rehearsals and that after a performance at the Mexican embassy, they were taken by bus to a discotheque.
After leaving his belongings on a seat, he left the vehicle momentarily to go to the bathroom and when one of Cano’s assistants returned, whom he accused of being “drunk”, did not allow him to entertold him that his seat was already taken and asked him to leave in a van with the catering staff who had worked that afternoon at the embassy.
Although she explained, still according to the young woman’s version, that she had her things inside and that she had reserved a seat, she was prevented from boarding the bus “and when I went in to collect my things, I found everything lying on the floor” near the bus which was her seat.
The young woman, she claims, had to wait 20 minutes for the van to arrive. When he arrived at the club, there was no one at the door and his cell phone had no battery. He was the bodyguard of Nacho Cano who came out, told him not to worry, and put the bracelet on him to access the premises.
Once inside, he did not spot the interns, but he did spot Malinche’s “Spanish dancers” “with whom I got along well.” Then, according to LGOF, he met Nacho Cano’s assistant again, who asked him “what was I doing there” and “he sent me to the inn“, because he told him that the Mexican companions had left.
LGOF disobeyed the order and went upstairs where she found two of her Mexican colleagues. A little later, he claims, “I saw what I didn’t need to see, and they saw that I saw it.”which, according to him, would be the trigger for his expulsion.
It was the next day, December 18, that she received the communication informing her that she was being fired as an intern and that she had to return to Mexico. The intern went to sleep at the hostel that night, after a Cano employee asked her to “please” do so, telling her that “you can’t be on the street, it’s very cold.”
The latter is part of the whatsapp message chain between the Mexican and the assistant, provided for in the complaint by threats conditions (blackmail) and revelation of secrets deposited by Nacho Cano. The young woman had a return flight for Wednesday 20 at 6 am, so cut off all communication with the scholarship program environment Malinche. He only replied on the day of the flight, but already in the afternoon.
“Ready to repair”
Although in the video she alluded to the fact that the trigger for her expulsion was witnessing something in the nightclub that she believed she should not have seen, in her messages of the 20th she wrote that she was “ready to fix what made them remove me from the project“Also, this”What you lack the least is money. and maybe they don’t understand my frustration see I left my family without an income.
In LGOF’s explanatory video, she also omits any reference to the fact that on December 22, she threatened the music producer with legal action. In order not to do so, he set the conditions on which they 6,000 euros in his mother’s Mexican account; a letter of recommendation signed by Nacho Cano and that they would pay for accommodation and food until January 15.
LGOF wrote on WhatsApp: “I spoke (sic) with my lawyer and he told me that I could sue them for negligence, discrimination, psychological violence, deprivation of liberty in the home, among others!” The young Mexican asked “a reward for damages” which initially demanded the payment of 5,350 euros and which was later rounded up to 6,000 euros. He gave me a deadline of three hours to accept. “I need an answer before 6 p.m., since I will not have a place to live today either and if that is the case, I will start asking for help through my social networks…” She clarified that if she accepted “this agreement”, she would not be proceeding “legally”.
Finally, in the video, he states that he then wanted to return to Mexico, but he did not have the money to buy the ticket.I didn’t go to the embassy from Mexico because I thought they weren’t going to help me because Mr. Nacho Cano has a lot of power.” But he went to the police station “to ask how I could leave,” and there, “the police took pity on me.”
Subsequently, on January 11, he reported the producer and three others for allegations violation of workers’ rights by bringing them to Spain as tourists and allegedly exploiting them for professional purposes, which led to a police investigation and the arrest of Nacho Cano in July. A month earlier, in June, he had addressed the public prosecutor’s office of the Provincial Court of Madrid three times, which had archived the proceedings.
