Rodrigo Goytortua Ortega, former CEO of Miss Universe Mexico, accused Raúl Rocha Cantú of intimidating him by financing the mother of his son to hide the child. Goytortua also revealed irregularities in Rocha's companies and predicted Fátima Bosch's win in the pageant due to interests linked to her father. These statements come amid a federal investigation against Rocha for alleged trafficking of fuel, drugs, and arms.
Rodrigo Goytortua Ortega, who served as CEO of Miss Universe Mexico in 2023, began working with Raúl Rocha Cantú, owner of 50% of the organization and president of Miss Universe, to modernize the pageant and clean his public image after the 2011 Casino Royale attack, where 52 people died. Goytortua agreed to work six months without pay and then receive 100,000 pesos monthly, but claims he was not paid and unjustly dismissed, demanding one million pesos in compensation at the Mexico City Labor Conciliation Center in 2024. Rocha Cantú denied any employment relationship or the CEO role in a letter to Proceso magazine.
During his tenure, Goytortua noticed irregularities in Rocha's companies: “they apparently had no employees, were paper companies, with empty office spaces, ghosts; the foundation had no success cases, nothing.” He predicted Fátima Bosch's win in Miss Universe 2025 five days earlier, during an HBO documentary filming, citing Rocha's relations with Bernardo Bosch Hernández, the winner's father and Pemex advisor since 2017. Goytortua described it as a “gift” or exchange of favors, not a direct purchase, linked to a 2023 Pemex contract with Rocha's company that lasted 11 months via public bidding. Both Rocha and Bosch Hernández denied prior ties or business; Bosch stated he met Rocha on September 13, 2025, in Guadalajara.
Goytortua's main motivation to speak is alleged intimidation: after leaked videos in February 2024 about pageant inclusions for marketing, Rocha reportedly contacted his son's mother to finance her and hide the child, worsening a custody battle over five years without contact. “What motivates me most is my son who has been a victim of this man, by instrumentalizing my son to generate fear in me, psychological terror,” Goytortua said in an interview with Ciro Gómez Leyva. He received death threats and suspects judge contacts.
These revelations coincide with an FGR investigation since November 2024 against Rocha for arms, fuel, and drug trafficking; he is identified as a possible protected witness. Guatemala revoked his honorary consul title, and the SSPC denied organized crime financing in Miss Universe.
