The board of directors behind Goya, the Latino food company, has voted to censure its CEO, Robert Unanue, due to his public comments backing former President Trump and his election fraud claims, news outlets reported this week.

Goya’s board voted last Friday to censure Unanue, meaning the CEO will not be permitted to speak to media outlets without the board’s approval, sources told CNN and The New York Post. 

The decision will operate as a “full stop” on Unanue talking to news outlets, a person familiar with the board’s actions told CNN. The New York Post first reported the censure on Monday.

Unanue’s censuring followed his comments on Fox Business on Inauguration Day that there was a “war coming” and President Biden’s election was “unverified.” 

"The company has never been political or politicized," the source told CNN. "He's gone from bad CEO to CEO that has imperiled the future of the company and endangered the lives of some of the shareholders.”

The company did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment.

After his censuring, Goya’s CEO told the Post that he “independently” decided he would no longer speak to the press about politics and religion, without addressing the board’s ban.

"Independently, I've made the decision to lower the temperature and walk away from speaking about politics and religion," he told the Post. "I realize it's important because of the diverse views of the company and our market."

Unanue’s remarks supporting the president in July stirred up more public controversy than his comments last week, although the latter still sparked the board’s actions. 

"They accomplished what they set out to do, which was get President Trump out of the way," he told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo on "Mornings With Maria." "I think this is mission accomplished, by the unions, the partnership, the conglomerate of social media, big tech, big media and big government.”

“There is a war coming, now that the president is leaving today, they're still coming after the United States, the working class,” he added. 

In July, Unanue said the U.S. was “all truly blessed” to have Trump as president, which triggered calls for a boycott and a counter “buy-cott” effort, in which the former president’s supporters encouraged people to purchase Goya products. 

For months, Trump repeatedly and falsely claimed that November's election results were illegitimate, alleging widespread voter fraud without providing evidence of such. Several lawsuits filed by his campaign challenging the results were dismissed in the courts.

The former president encouraged his supporters to flock to D.C. to protest Congress’s certification of Biden’s win on Jan. 6. Those protests evolved into a riot that overtook the Capitol, resulting in five deaths.