In El Tigre: Emilio Azcárraga y su imperio Televisa (The Tiger: Emilio Azcárraga and His Televisa Empire), a biography published in 2000, Claudia Fernández and Andrew Paxman write that in 1990 Azcárraga called himself “soldado del PRI y del presidente” (soldier of the PRI and of the president). Five years later, they write, he said he was “soldado del presidente,” and nothing more.
The remark is quoted in several wordings. Some versions speak of Televisa as a whole. Other sources give no date.