TV & VIDEO - Aug. 12, 1987

Televisa, Mexico’s leading television network, has yanked a series of controversial ads in which a group of leading Mexican artists and intellectuals demand the government do something about Mexico City’s severe air pollution. The health risks were publicized for more than three weeks in one-minute spots aired on Televisa and delivered by such eminent artists and writers as painter Jose Luis Cuevas and novelist Carlos Fuentes. Televisa President Miguel Aleman, son of a former Mexican president, said there had been no government pressure: “You cannot go around just shocking people and then not say anything.”