Overview
- Niño de Rivera called the reference to Salinas an editorial error, said Penitencia is not an investigative project, and confirmed the episode was taken down, edited, and reuploaded.
- Saskia Niño de Rivera said she visited the prison and verified that “Beto” is alive and serving a 72‑year sentence, rejecting viral posts that falsely claimed he died.
- The podcast’s production previously removed the direct mention of Salinas from the episode following the online backlash.
- Salinas’s daughter, María Eugenia Plascencia, publicly denied the allegations as false, and the family says it is evaluating potential legal action.
- Reactions multiplied online as Emiliano Aguilar asserted he had warned about such claims, past comments by Andrés García resurfaced, and singer Yuri defended Salinas’s memory and urged restraint over unproven accusations.