Nacho Cano

Nacho Cano was briefly arrested in July 2024 during an investigation into the circumstances of young Mexicans who had come to Madrid under a programme presented as training scholarships for the musical "Malinche". The investigation concerned possible offences against workers' rights and those of foreign nationals. In April 2025, the Madrid Provincial Court ordered the case provisionally dismissed, finding insufficient evidence of unlawful entry or criminal conduct.

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Following his arrest, Cano claimed that the police and judiciary were targeting him because of his support for Isabel Díaz Ayuso, going so far as to accuse the government of political interference and filing a criminal complaint against the investigating judge for abuse of judicial authority. In October 2025, the TSJM dismissed an initial complaint for lack of jurisdiction, without ruling out its possible submission to another court.

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Yogi Songs, a company linked to Nacho Cano, received approximately 39,371 euros in extraordinary COVID support from the Community of Madrid. The opposition subsequently cited this aid, together with other institutional relationships, to denounce a supposed 'symbiosis' between Cano and Ayuso.

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The musical Malinche attracted criticism in Spain and Mexico for a portrayal considered favourable to the conquistadors, oversimplified or laden with stereotypes about Indigenous peoples. Critics particularly challenged its depiction of the conquest and the prominence given to Hernán Cortés.

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Nacho Cano's project received a temporary allocation of approximately 19,000 m² of municipal land in Hortaleza to install a facility linked to Malinche. Opposition parties requested details of the transaction's terms and raised Cano's close relationship with Ayuso; local residents protested against the private use of a public plot.

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During the Community of Madrid's official ceremony on 2 May 2021, held two days before the regional election, Nacho Cano delivered an emphatic tribute to Isabel Díaz Ayuso and symbolically placed his own award on her, a gesture interpreted by critics as turning an institutional event into an electoral endorsement.

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