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Emilo Azcárraga Milmo/ Emilio Azcárraga Jr. is known as El Tigre. Born on September 6th, 1930 in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Azcárraga was a hard driving billionaire who built his empire on his family’s television network. He started working at the age of 21 at his father’s company as a salesman. In 1972 upon his father’s death, he inherited a TV company from his father. Emilio took over as chairman of Televisa. Emilio built it into the world’s largest producer of broadcast program in Spanish. Televisa programs are seen throughout Latin America and in Spain. His nickname El Tigre has different replies to where it came from. For example, it was because of his hair, the distinctive shock of white hair that drew a strip across the top of his head. Other suggested that since his father was known as El Leon that it would only be apparent that he would also have a feline nickname. However, his nickname did not become well known until the eighties. What he was most controversial for was the unconditional support the offered for years to Mexico’s Institutional revolutionary party, known as the PRI. In 1993 Emilio Azcárraga Milmo was considered the richest man in Latin America, with a fortune estimated at 5 billion dollars.