Senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez denied on April 27 that his US visa has been canceled, following the leak of an audio recording. He claimed the audio is AI-generated and that both he and his father still hold valid visas. Yunes, expelled from PAN for supporting the 2024 judicial reform, promised to provide evidence on his next trip.
Senator Miguel Ángel Yunes Márquez addressed reporters on April 27 regarding rumors of his US visa cancellation. “It makes no sense, I have my visa normally. I just went to the United States in January,” he stated when questioned.
A viral audio on social media features a purported conversation between his father, Miguel Ángel Yunes Linares, former Veracruz governor, and Esteban Moctezuma, former Mexican ambassador to the US. In it, Yunes Linares seeks migration assistance, claiming his visa was revoked and his son's is at risk, even requesting a call to resolve it.
Yunes Márquez dismissed it: “That's crazy, it's artificial intelligence.” He confirmed his father still holds his visa and voiced irritation over the leak. He vowed to document evidence on his next US trip.
Yunes was expelled from PAN for backing the judicial reform pushed by former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2024. There is no official confirmation of visa revocations for officials aligned with the 4T, though similar cases have been reported since last year.
