Pulse of the Republic: Online Satirical Mexican News Show Goes Where TV Won't Deborah Bonello - The Los Angeles Times
go to original October 31, 2015

Chumel Torres, 'Mexico's Jon Stewart,' Reboots the News on YouTube Channel Pulse of the Republic (BBC Trending)

Long before drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman escaped from a maximum security prison in July, Internet comedy star Chumel Torres had joked with viewers that they should lay bets on when it would happen.

More than a million Mexicans subscribe to Torres' YouTube channel, El Pulso de la Republica, the country's most successful independent satirical show.

Twice a week, Torres, 33, uses the ample supply of public corruption, embarrassing mismanagement and other hot-button issues that plague Mexico to script his show, delivered mainly straight to the camera with an array of props such as wigs and glasses.

...On the issue of immigration, he joked, "Migration is like smoking weed: If you don't have papers, it's going to be a bitch."

Over the last three years, Torres has built himself into a web sensation doing the kind of satirical material online that wouldn't make it onto the airwaves in today's Mexico.

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