Manosphere messiahs: Mexico

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary

4.3 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

It started in the West with influencers like Andrew Tate. Now the manosphere has gone global, with copycats from Africa to Latin America attracting huge audiences and the cash to match. In Episode One of a two-part investigation, reporter Jacqui Wakefield explores the booming industry in Mexico, where social media algorithms are fuelling a growing gender divide. She follows one of the biggest influencers in Latin America, the Mexican El Temach, meeting his fans – and one of the people who knows him best. And she speaks to some of the women paying the price for the misogyny of some manosphere content..

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts.
0:07.2	Things just swirling around my head.
0:09.6	Am I really the product of this?
0:12.1	Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.
0:17.0	Little did I know what more was to come.
0:19.5	I'm Jenny Clemen, and in the new series of The Gift,
0:23.6	we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.
0:28.8	They did know that I was different.
0:31.7	You had kids together.
0:33.0	Yeah.
0:33.5	Then you met.
0:34.3	Then we met.
0:35.2	The Gift.
0:36.1	Listen on BBC Sounds.
0:44.3	We're in the US in Las Vegas.
0:47.7	Outside a gig venue where there are hundreds of Latino men in their 20s and 30s, and there's an energy in the air.
0:56.0	They're here to see the biggest masculinity influencer in Latin America.
1:01.8	He calls himself Elle to Match, the teacher, and he's on his world tour.
1:09.6	Tall, with a shaved head and beard, dressed in a three-piece suit.
1:13.9	He shouts to his fans.
1:19.3	Welcome to War Mode.
1:24.6	Murder Guerra.
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