Mexican journalists, essayists, and columnists of the past
Mexican journalists, essayists, and columnists of the past
In the journalistic guild, there was, has been and will be everything: journalists, honest, incorruptible; corrupt, acquiescent, flattering, bribeable journalists, recipients of gifts and bribes from businessmen, public officials, rulers; those who wait for their Christmas basket before Christmas, a watch... for their birthday, a book, a tie, some cufflinks, or a trip with expenses paid to a summer resort, spa, seaside village, or mountain destination ; throughout the year, cash, free tickets to theaters, auditoriums, cabarets, performance centers, cinemas, breakfasts... these journalists were included in the list, a list that some subordinate of the great official had written in his notebook, to give and distribute bribes to those listed in it.
The Súper Leche café–restaurant was proverbial, on Avenida San Juan de Letrán No. 41 (since 1978, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas), on the corner with Victoria street –there is currently (2022) the Taquería and Torteria Pocho–, in the City from Mexico, a meeting place for journalists, to taste coffee with mille–feuille, shells, cortadillos, etc.; chilaquiles, scrambled eggs, Valencian paella... It was owned by Spanish businessman Víctor Manuel Fernández Fagoaga, who died in 2020. His slogan was: "Better coffee, better bread, better milk, only in Super Milk." Mexican, Spanish, and international food. The building that housed him collapsed around 7:19 a.m. on Thursday, September 19, 1985, due to the famous and deadly earthquake of 8* or 8.1** degrees Richter.
*According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
**According to the National Seismological Service (SSN).
Another restaurant, this one frequented more by businessmen and politicians, and some journalists, was Prendes, located at Calle 16 de Septiembre No. 10, half a block east of Avenida San Juan de Letrán (today, Eje Central Lázaro Cárdenas), in Mexico City. It was founded in 1892 by the Asturian brothers Manuel and Rafael Prendes, in the southern part of the land currently occupied by the Palace of Fine Arts.
Likewise, the premises of Caldos de Pollo Zenón (Zenón Chicken Broths), on the same avenue in the capital, San Juan de Letrán Avenue, and in other parts of Mexico City, the former Tenochtitlán.
Other journalists and owners of small newspapers go to taco shops, or to street stalls selling tacos, quesadillas (in the Mexican states or provinces, quesadillas are always made with cheese; in Mexico City, not always), tortas, guajolotas (tamale tortas), accompanied by soft drinks (sodas), coffee, milk, atole, etcetera.
In Guadalajara, Jalisco, a meeting place for a few journalists was the now-defunct Café de La Rotonda, at Calle Independencia 372, a few meters east of the Municipal Presidency.
Many cities and towns in the Mexican geography have their emblematic cafes, where journalists go, on their own initiative, or invited to have breakfast or lunch by politicians, public officials, rulers.
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Some columnists, journalists, political analysts, scientific researchers, academics, commentators, or intellectuals—the majority were Mexicans—from the past.
Enrique Aceves Brihuega (1910 – ?). During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, he wrote a column called "Gusts" in the Guadalajara newspaper El Informador, made up of short sarcastic or ironic comments in paragraphs of two or three lines each, about events and situations of political events in Mexico. and from Jalisco.
Ismael Aguayo Figueroa; Colima chronicler. In the 1950s, he wrote a column called "Instants" in the newspaper Diario de Colima. In the 1970s he wrote his column on local politics from Colima "In Three Minutes" in the same morning paper.
Alejandro Aguilar Reyes (Mexico City, 19020502 – ibid., 19611112). He wrote under the pen name "Fray Nano". Sports chronicler, co–founder with Ernesto Carmona and managers of the baseball clubs, on 24 February 1925*, of the Mexican Baseball League, the first professional baseball league in Mexico. He founded the world's first Mexican sports newspaper, La Afición. Semanario de Deportes y Toros (The Fans, Weekly Sports and Bullfighting), in 1930, as a weekly, then it was bi–weekly, and later daily. The first issue went on sale on Thursday, 19301225, priced at 5 Mexican cents. "Fray Nano" was admitted to the Mexican Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973. "Fray Nano"'s participation in the sports world was so relevant that he also took part in the creation of the Box and Free Fight Commission, in addition to being a pioneer in coverage of events such as the World Series. He died at the age of 59, from heart complications and diabetes, at the Spanish Hospital in Mexico City. In the first decade of the 21st century, La Afición became the sports section or supplement of the Milenio newspapers.
*The governor of the Federal District was Ramón Ross (Álamos, Sonora, 1864 – Mexico City, 1934), a political friend and subordinate of the powerful Sonoran generals Álvaro Obregón Salido and Plutarco Elías Calles Campuzano (the latter was president of Mexico from 19241201 to 19281130).
Juan María Alponte (Santander, 19241220 – Mexico City, 20151203). He wrote in Excelsior. Was a full–time professor at the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences (FCPyS) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Juan María Alponte was one of his pseudonyms; Another was: Hernando Pacheco, which he used during the Echeverrista six–year term (1970–1976), to host the Sunday afternoon television program "El mundo en que vivimos" ("The World We Live In), broadcast on XEW–TV, Channel 2 of Televisa. His real name was: Enrique Restituto Ruiz García (a Spaniard). He wore leggings.
Domingo Arteaga Castañeda (19330616 – Ciudad Obregón, 20170526, priest). His Sunday column, "Cajón de Sastre" ("Catchall"), was published in Diario del Yaqui, in Ciudad Obregón, State of Sonora.
René Avilés Fabila (Mexico, Federal District, 19401115 – ibid., 20161009). Writer, journalist and university professor, author of short stories, novels and autobiographical works. He was known as "El Búho" ("The Owl"). He was a contributor to El Día, El Universal, El Nacional, Diario de México and Unomásuno, of which he was one of the founders. In the Excelsior newspaper, he was a contributor to the cultural supplement Diorama de la Cultura; editor of the newspaper Excelsior from 1981 to 1998; director of the cultural section (1984–1986); and founder and director of the cultural supplement El Búho (1985–1999), which succeeded Diorama de la Cultura. Likewise, he was director of Revista de Revistas (Magazine of Magazines) from 2004 to 2005. He was a contributor to the magazines Siempre! (Always!), La Crisis, Conservatorianos, Revista de la Universidad de México, Mester, and Casa del Tiempo. Among the international ones, his articles for Casa de las Américas in Havana stand out.
Armando Ayala Anguiano (Abasolo or city of Guanajuato, 19280527 – Malinalco, Edomex, 20131115). He was director of the Mexican magazine Contenido from June 1963 to 2006. In addition, he wrote books such as: Hidalgo de carne y hueso (Hidalgo of flesh and bone), Juárez de carne y hueso (Juárez of flesh and bone), Madero de carne y hueso (Madero of flesh and bone).
Agustín Barrios Gómez (died on 19990315). Journalist, ambassador, television commentator. He was writing a column, "Popoff Salad." The definition of "popoff" by the Mexican Spanish Dictionary, written, edited and published by El Colegio de México, is: "popoff" (masculine and feminine adjective) (Also popof). That it belongs to the aristocracy or to the wealthy social class and lineage: a very popoff family.
Fernando Benítez Gutiérrez (Mexico City, 19120116 – ibid., 20000221). Mexican journalist, writer, editor and historian. He was the founder of the cultural supplements México en la Cultura in the newspaper Novedades; La Cultura en México in the magazine Siempre! (Always!), and Sábado (Saturday) in Unomásuno.
Jim Bishop (Jersey City, New Jersey, 19071121 – Delray Beach, Florida, 19870726). This American journalist published from 1957 to 1983 a column syndicated by King Features Syndicate titled: "Jim Bishop: Reporter" –in Latin America: "Así es la vida..." ("Life is like that...")–. On one occasion he narrated how he used to "lose" the "return" part of round trips on purpose, at various airports in the U.S., in order to take advantage of the offers and bargains of certain airlines and thereby saving significant amounts of money, for which it was required to make triangulations and invest some time. He was critical of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and other politicians in "The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave". He wrote an "average" book: The Day Lincoln Was Shot.
Roberto Blanco Moheno (Cosautlán de Carvajal, Veracruz, 1920 – Mexico City, 20011201). Novelist, historian, journalist and television commentator. He used to bitterly criticize Andrés Henestrosa, a long–lived poet, narrator, essayist, politician (deputy and senator for his state, Oaxaca) and journalist (19061130 – 20081001, lived 101 years), who he said was an accommodating person, he used to ask for favors, solicited jobs, and flattered people like Mexican President Adolfo López–Mateos, before whom he danced the Guelaguetza. |||||| Blanco Moheno wrote about twenty books, of which the following stand out: Chronicle of the Mexican Revolution (1957), a work written in three volumes, and Corruption in Mexico (1979).
Jesús Blancornelas (born in San Luis Potosí City, lived in Tijuana most of his life. San Luis Potosí, 19361113 – Tijuana, 20061123). Journalist, founder of the ABC newspaper in Tijuana and the weekly Zeta. Author of numerous newspaper articles in which he reported deviant and corrupt activities of the politicians of the time, although later the information was based on the appearance and growth of drug cartels on the northern border, with the United States of America, in where politicians from the Mexican government had colluded. He was the author of the book Biébrich, chronicle of an infamy, about the political defenestration of the governor of Sonora (19730913 – 19751025), Carlos Armando Biébrich Torres (1939–2021).
Salvador Borrego Escalante (Mexico City, 19150424 – 20180108). Journalist and writer, a leading exponent of the Mexican ultra–right, in addition to his ties to the right–wing party Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), and notorious for his denial of the Holocaust of Nazi Germany in his country. Two of his books are: World Defeat and Metaphysical Battles He opined in various Mexican newspapers; for example, see page 5 of the Diario de Colima, from Saturday, 19740511. Explanation of the Agricultural Disaster
Manuel Buendía Tellezgirón (Zitácuaro, Michoacán, 19260524 – Mexico City, 19840530). His column "Red Privada" ("Private Net"), published in the Excelsior newspaper of the Federal District (today, Mexico City), was reproduced by around 60 Mexican newspapers. With this, he was the most influential journalist in the written press scene in Mexico, in the second half of the 20th century. The main issues that Buendía addressed in the column were the presence of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in Mexico, the extreme right, drug trafficking and government corruption. The day he was assassinated, an annular solar eclipse occurred. The shadow swept across Hawaii, central Mexico, the Gulf of Mexico, the eastern United States of America, the Atlantic Ocean, and North Africa.
Virgilio Caballero Pedraza (born in Tamaulipas, resident in the Federal District; Tampico, Tamaulipas, 19420224 – Mexico City, 20190325). Normal teacher, teacher in communication sciences, anthropologist and journalist. Creator, promoter, or collaborator of public service radio and television stations: Channel Once, Channel 13 of Imevisión, Radio and Television of Sonora, Quintanarroense System of Social Communication, Oaxacan Institute of Radio and Television, CNI Channel 40, Congress Channel, Channel 44 of the University of Guadalajara, Radio UAM, Capital 21. In 2015 he became even more bureaucratic: he was a federal deputy for federal electoral district 3, of Azcapotzalco (for the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional, Morena party). In 2018 he was a local deputy in Mexico City for the Azcapotzalco–Miguel Hidalgo local electoral district 5 (for Morena). In other words, he became more budgetary.
José Luis Ceceña Gámez (Mazatlán, Sinaloa, 19150911 – Querétaro, Querétaro, 20120103). Mexican economist and academic. He stood out for drawing at the beginning of the 1960s the map of Mexico's economic subordination to the United States of America. He wrote hundreds of articles for Siempre! magazine. and the Excelsior newspaper.
Carlo Coccioli (Italian, very critical of the popes, living in Mexico City, Federal District. |||||| Livorno, Tuscany, Italy, 19200515 – Mexico City, 20030805). Italian writer living for many years in Mexico, a country he considered his second homeland. He used Italian, French and Spanish as a literary language. He was money: in several of his columns, "Columpio" ("Swing"), in Excelsior, he "screamed" (he complained) because the Mexican government did not grant him an annual scholarship paid in monthly installments, which other writers did receive. He was never given. He was a middling novelist.
Jesus Corral Ruiz. His columns were: "Post Card" and "Remaining Post" in Diario del Yaqui, founded by him in Ciudad Obregón on 19420409. He committed suicide by shooting himself on 19931202.
Germán Dehesa (Tacubaya, Mexico City, 19440701 – 20100902). Mexican journalist, writer and broadcaster. In the 1980s he wrote a column in the newspaper Novedades (Mexico City, Federal District).
Bartolomé Delgado de León (Torreón, Coahuila, 1928 – Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, 19740926). Journalist, poet, cultural promoter and columnist born in Coahuila, living in Sonora, critic of the government and society of his time and his environment. He wrote in the Ciudad Obregón newspapers: Diario del Yaqui (1950s), Claridades (1969), Heraldo del Yaqui (1960s), and Tribuna del Yaqui (1970s). He was a dreamer, nonconformist, and dipsomaniac.
Carlos Denegri (1910 – 19700101). Son of Sonoran politician and diplomat Ramón P. Denegri (1887–1955). Carlos studied in Germany, in Switzerland and at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He was director of Magazine of Magazines, of Excelsior; polyglot, educated, intelligent, unstable, alcoholic, narcissistic. He was shot to death by his third wife, Herlinda Mendoza Rojo, whom he insulted, threatened and beat.
Alberto Domingo (circa 1926 – Mexico City, 20070312; his real name was Gregorio Contreras). Poet and journalist. He wrote in Siempre! (Always!) and Impact, as well as for the Mexican Information Agency (AMI, Agencia Mexicana de Información). He was editor–in–chief of the magazine Siempre! (Always!) for 30 years. He had to leave this last job due to his alcoholism problems.
Mario Ezcurdia Camacho (Mexico City, Federal District, 19250110 – ibid., 19980810). Journalist, novelist and essayist. He began in journalism around 1943, as an editor's assistant at Hoy (Today) magazine. He was press officer of the Presidency of the Republic during the regime of Adolfo López Mateos (1958–1964). His column "Las Cuentas Claras" appeared in 1973 and 1974 in the newspaper El Universal; from 1977 to 1982 he was the author of the column "De la Política" published in El Día and also sent by the Lemus Agency to state newspapers; for example, Diario de Colima.
Ricardo Flores Magón (San Antonio Eloxochitlán, Oaxaca, 18730916 – Leavenworth prison, Kansas, United States of America, 19221121, at the age of 49). Anarchist, socialist, writer. He was one of the three Flores Magón brothers, leaders of the Magonistas. He is considered an important figure in the social movement that contributed to the origin and development of the Mexican Revolution. He was one of the founders of the Mexican Liberal Party (PLM). In 1892 he participated in the student riots against the third re–election of Porfirio Díaz in the presidency of Mexico, and collaborated as a journalist in the opposition newspaper El Demócrata, directed by Joaquín Clausell. In 1900, together with his older brother, Jesús Flores Magón, he founded the legal newspaper Regeneración, an independent medium from which they criticized the corruption of the judicial system of the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz, which led to his imprisonment. In 1901 he attended the First Congress of Liberal Clubs in the city of San Luis Potosí, in which he harshly attacked the Díaz government. Consequently, the newspaper was suppressed and Flores Magón was imprisoned. In 1902, he leased the political satire newspaper El Hijo de El Ahuizote, in which the Aguascaliente engraver and caricaturist José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) collaborated with cartoons loaded with sharp criticisms of the Díaz regime. On 19030205, together with his younger brother, Enrique Flores Magón, and other liberals, he participated in the protests, placing on the balcony of the offices of El Hijo de El Ahuizote a large black crepe as a sign of mourning and the phrase " The Constitution is dead", referring to the Constitution of 1857, also promulgated on February 5. He was apprehended once more, and when he was released in 1904, he left for Laredo, Texas, going into exile with his brother, his father, and other companions.
Carlos Fuentes Macías (Panama City, Panama, 19281111 – Mexico City, 20120515). Writer and columnist. One of the best–known exponents of the Latin American boom. According to Eloy Garza González, he was a great bad novelist: Homenaje (in reverse) Eloy Garza is right. Fuentes began as a contributing journalist for Hoy magazine. He is a lawyer from UNAM, and an economist from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. He was a columnist in the sister newspapers El Norte, Reforma and Mural.
Gastón García Cantú (Puebla, Puebla, 19171103 – ibid., 20040403). Intellectual, historian, academic and journalist. He wrote in the supplement México en la Cultura of the newspaper Novedades (1955–1961); He was a contributor to the newspaper Excelsior (1971–1976) and the magazines Proceso and Siempre! (Always!) (1977–1980).
Nemesio García Naranjo (Lampazos de Naranjo, Nuevo León, 18830308 – Mexico, Federal District, 19621221). Lawyer, journalist, writer, historian, politician, professor and academic. During 1903 and 1904, he wrote articles against the Porfirian general Bernardo Reyes in Diario del Hogar. He collaborated for El Universal in 1924 and 1925, while practicing law in Lampazos and Monterrey.
León García Soler (Mexico, Federal District, 19340310 – Cuernavaca, Morelos, 20201211). He started in the newspaper Novedades. He wrote in Excelsior. Later he wrote his column "A la Mitad del Foro" in the newspaper El Universal.
Javier Garrido (Luis Javier Garrido Platas) (1941 – Mexico City 20120201). Writer, professor and university researcher, and political analyst. He collaborated weekly in La Jornada. He was a constant critic of the Mexican governments using arguments not from political science, but from what he considered to be "the public interest" and the "social bases". He showed it like this in his books, articles and conferences.
Luis González de Alba (Charcas, S.L.P., 19440306 – Guadalajara, 20161002, suicide with a firearm). Writer, journalist. This gay columnist had 25 books to his credit. They stand out: The days and the years (1971, about the massacre of Tlatelolco, of 19681002), The lies of my teachers (2004), and There was no boat for me (2013).
Mauricio González de la Garza (Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 19231006 – 1995). Writer, journalist and composer. PhD in Philosophy and Psychology from UNAM. He wrote a nationally syndicated column in Mexico, under the title "Mauricio Dice." The column appeared regularly in the Excelsior newspaper, among others. González de la Garza, a "passionate and courageous columnist for Mexico," used his pen against those who sought to harm Mexico or its citizens. He never hesitated to speak the truth, without regard to his personal safety or to whom he might be annoyed by his criticism. Only after Mauricio González de la Garza dared to criticize powerful political figures did others follow his example, seeking to make Mexico a more just and democratic nation. During the presidency of José López Portillo, the publication of his book Última llamada (1980) forced Mauricio González de la Garza to live in exile in Falfurrias, Texas. He wrote about thirteen books. In addition to the aforementioned, Deluge (Grijalbo, 1988) stands out. During the last stage of his life, the journalistic businessman Mario Vázquez Raña (1932–2015) allowed him to collaborate with a column in El Sol de México and the rest of the newspapers of the Mexican Editorial Organization (OEM). González de la Garza also performed as a pianist and composer, writing several musical compositions, and achieving national success with his work "Polvo enamorado", performed by José José (José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz, 1948–2019).
Carlos González López–Negrete, "the Duke of Otranto" ("noble title" granted to him by the head of the "III Mexican Empire", the publicist and public relations officer Federico Sánchez Fogarty [San Luis Potosí, 19010706 – City of Mexico, 19760804]). Carlos González wrote about "The three hundred... and some more", individuals and individuals belonging to the upper classes and the elite of Mexico City, from 1944 to 1972, approximately.
Carlos González Peña (Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, 18850707 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19550801). Journalist and writer. He moved to Mexico City in 1902, where he held various jobs in bureaucratic positions, and began to associate with writers and intellectuals. He began his career as a journalist and literary critic at the newspaper La Patria. He also wrote for El Diario, El Mundo Ilustrado, and was the founder of magazines such as México, in 1914, Savia Moderna, in 1915, and El Universal Ilustrado in 1917. He signed many of his chronicles and writings with the pseudonym Maese Pedro. In 1910 he was one of the founders and participants in the Ateneo de la Juventud, a movement for cultural renewal. On 19211125 he was appointed corresponding member of the Mexican Academy of Language, and on 19310821, member of number; he occupied chair I, he was the fourth censor of the institution, he held said position from 1939 until his death.
His narrative style is more assimilated with that of the second half of the 19th century, having a very correct prose. He also wrote grammar works.
Of the Night (novel, 1905)
The Little Girl (novel, 1907)
The Bohemian Muse (novel, 1908)
The Fugue of the Chimera (novel, 1919)
Castilian grammar manual, fundamentally arranged according to the doctrine of Don Andrés Bello (manual, 1921)
History of Mexican literature (essay, 1928)
The patio under the moon. Laguense scenes and landscapes (essay, 1945)
The Musical Spell (essay, 1946)
Clarity in the distance (essay on Mexican literature, 1947)
The soul and the mask (essay on theater, 1948)
People and landscapes of Jalisco (essay, 1949)
Between the dust of the road (essay, 1950)
Paris and London. Travel pictures (1950).
Awards and distinctions:
National Prize for Literature, in 1947.
Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa (born in the Mexican State of Hidalgo, lived in Mexico City; his detractors, caustics, said that he was Miguel Ángel Granados Chafa [seedy]; Pachuca, Hidalgo, 19410310 – Mexico City, 20111016). He collaborated in Excelsior, La Jornada, and in the sister newspapers El Norte, Reforma and Mural.
Ignacio Gutierrez Hermosillo. See P. Lussa.
Luis Gutiérrez y González. He was one of the founders of Siempre! (Always!) magazine, in 1953.
Alfredo Kawage Ramia (of Lebanese origin). In the 1950s, he was the owner and CEO of the capital's Zócalo newspaper.
Renato Leduc (Tlalpan, Federal District, 18971116 – Mexico City, 19860802). Writer, poet and journalist. He was one of the telegraph operators of the Northern Division, commanded by General Francisco "Pancho" Villa. Traveler by foot, train, bus, plane, horse. In 1941 he married the English surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917–2011). They divorced her in 1943. This marriage had the purpose more than anything to help her flee Nazi persecution. His most famous sonnet, "Tiempo" ("Time") ("Wise virtue of knowing the time..."), was set to music by the violinist and composer Rubén Fuentes (1926–2022). He published various columns in the newspapers Excelsior, Últimas Noticias, Ovaciones and ESTO, and in the weekly magazine Siempre! (Always!)
Bob Logar (pseudonym of Roberto López Garza; fictitious last name Logar is a portmanteau of "López" and "Garza"; died at old age on 20180106). He was a pioneer of entertainment journalism in Mexico. He covered the entertainment fountain since the 1960s. He wrote the "Los Dobermans" column, so named because, as he once said, "artists are like Los Dobermans, suddenly they don't know you." He was the head of the Press and the first representative of the famous Mexican singer Luis Miguel (Gallego Basteri).
Vicente Lombardo Toledano (Teziutlán, Puebla, 18940716 – Mexico, Federal District, 19681116). Unionist, left–wing budget–eater politician and third–class philosopher. On 19480620 he founded the Popular Party (PP), which was officially registered on 19480908, and in 1961 it was renamed the Popular Socialist Party (PPS, Partido Popular Socialista); it lost registration with the Federal Electoral Institute (IFE) in 1997. For two or three years, Lombardo wrote a column in the capital newspaper El Heraldo de México (1919–1923) founded by the revolutionary general Salvador Alvarado Rubio (1880–1924). .
Carlos Loret de Mola Mediz (Mérida, Yucatán, 19210730 – Coyuca de Catalán, Guerrero, 19860208). Mexican journalist and politician, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He was a representative, senator, and governor of Yucatán (19700201 – 19760131). Loret de Mola Mediz was a journalist who wrote and directed several newspapers in various parts of the country, was part of the founding team of El Heraldo de Aguascalientes, and also participated in print media in Guanajuato and Chihuahua, enjoying wide prestige.
Fernando Marcos (Mexico City, 1913 – ibid., 2000). Fernando Marcos González was a Mexican soccer player, referee, coach, and sports journalist. In his early years, he was a normalista teacher, and initially studied law, in addition to having been the creator of film documentaries, and executive producer of several Mexican films, all directed by Emilio "El Indio" Fernández (1904–1986). Marcos commented on soccer matches via XEW–TV Channel 2 of Telesistema Mexicano and, since 19730108, Televisa (Televisión Vía Satélite, S.A.), a company resulting from the merger of Telesistema Mexicano and Televisión Independiente de México (TIM).
Francisco Martínez de la Vega (from San Luis Potosí Potosí, lived in Mexico City since 1930; San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, 19090826 – Mexico, Federal District, 19850218). He was a journalist, writer and political analyst; also, governor of his home state (1958–1961). When his father fell ill, his brother José ("Pepe") and he had to work to help the family, having to drop out of school. Due to the poverty that his family had, Francisco Martínez de la Vega was a bullfighting and later sports chronicler, an editorial assistant, he covered all the sources and thus climbed step by step to become a clear, strong and simple critic. He did his first studies in his native city, but in 1923 he had to suspend them. In 1930 he moved to Mexico City, Federal District, where he began working as an apprentice editor in the newspaper El Nacional, during 12 years of service, he was a sports editor, reporter, security guard, cabalist, secretary, and became redaction boss. In 1943 he was private secretary of the governor of San Luis Potosí, the redoubtable Gonzalo N. Santos (1897–1978). He wrote the column "En la Esquina" for the capital's daily newspaper El Día. He wrote about six books.
Filomeno Mata Rodríguez (Hacienda de Carranco, municipality of Villa de Reyes, San Luis Potosí, 18450705 – Veracruz, 19110702). Professor graduated from the Normal School for Teachers, today Benemérita and Centennial Normal School of the State of San Luis Potosí. He practiced journalism, he was one of the most prominent writers during the Porfiriato. He wrote for El Monitor Republicano and La Patria. He also participated in El Ahuizote, a ferocious weekly that appeared in 1874, whose content opposed the government of the Jacobin politician Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada (president of Mexico from 1872 to 1876). During his career, he founded and ran newspapers. Some of them were: El Sufragio Libre, El Cascabel, La Hoja Eléctrica and El Monitor Tuxtepecano, the latter a supporter of the government of General Porfirio Díaz.
Ignacio Matus (circa 1932 – Mexico City, 20170913). He wrote about soccer in ESTO, El Sol de México and the other newspapers of the Mexican Editorial Organization (OEM). He was director of the sports newspaper ESTO. He was a heavy smoker. He covered eleven FIFA Soccer Cups*:
1. Federal Republic of Germany 1974,
2. Argentina 1978,
3. Spain 1982,
4. Mexico 1986,
5. Italy 1990,
6. United States 1994,
7. France 1998,
8. South Korea and Japan 2002,
9. Germany 2006,
10. South Africa 2010, and
11. Brazil 2014
*International Association Football Federation.
Leopoldo Meraz ("El Reportero COR") (Torreón, Coahuila, circa 1932 – Mexico City, 20041110). Famous journalist and influential entertainment columnist. He began in journalism in the 1950s, when he was a correspondent in his native Torreón, for the sports newspaper La Afición, directed by "Fray Nano" (see Alejandro Aguilar Reyes). For a short time he was director of El Universal Gráfico. In the 1970s he was editorial director of Box y Lucha magazine; star editor and editor of Espectacular magazine. The World of Wrestling, from 1986 to 1989. From 1991 to 1995 he was editor of Super Fights. He is a columnist in the magazine TVyNovelas and in the newspaper Ovaciones. He published his columns "Dimes y Diretes" and "El Fabricador de Estrellas" in the newspaper El Universal, and later in Ovaciones.
René Messina Reyes (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1941 or 1942 – Puerto Vallarta, 19930320. From the 1970s to March 1993, he directed the weekly political pamphlet Apertura (Opening).
Margarita Michelena (Pachuca, Hidalgo, 19170721 – Mexico City, 19980327). Poet, literary critic, journalist and Mexican translator. She was the founder of the newspaper El Cotidiano; director of El Libro y el Pueblo, Respuesta, La Cultura en México and Cuestión, and editor of Novedades and Excelsior. She also worked as a scriptwriter for XEW and as a host on XEMX Radio Femenina. She is the founder of the federal district evening newspaper Cuestión, whose first issue went on sale on 19800121, with a circulation of 5,000 copies. A characteristic of this short–lived newspaper was that its editorial staff and the group of reporters were made up exclusively of women. She was also a columnist in various capital newspapers.
Magdalena Mondragón (Torreón, Coahuila, 19130714 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19890705). Journalist, playwright and novelist; the first woman to direct a Mexican newspaper, the capital's La Prensa Gráfica, starting in... (sources differ: 1940, or 1950). In her honor, the National Association of Mexican Journalists created the Magdalena Mondragón Medal, which honors journalists with an outstanding uninterrupted career as well as cultural figures. She started working as a secretary in the newspaper El Siglo de Torreón at the age of 14, in 1927. In this newspaper, years later, she began to publish some of her work in a column called "Sin Malicia" ("Without Malice") and in supplements. She would later become a correspondent for various newspapers in Mexico and the United States, including La Opinión, in Los Angeles, California, Excelsior and El Universal. Upon moving to Mexico City permanently in 1935, she began her collaboration in the newspaper La Prensa in the police note, becoming the first woman journalist in that field; she collaborated in said publication for thirty years.
Carlos Monsiváis Aceves (Mexico City, Federal District, 19380504 – Mexico City, 20100619). Writer and journalist. This gay columnist had a large number of books published. He was a corrupt, bribable and bribed individual: Víctor Roura, Culture editor of the capital newspaper El Financiero, published in his column "Viernes o Voy" → "Mecenazgos inverosímiles" ("Unbelievable Patronage"), on Friday 20101015, page 57, that "Monsi" received for more 20 years old "a substantial monthly scholarship emeritus from the State with extreme punctuality".
Manuel Moreno Sánchez (Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes, 19080711 – 19930425). Mexican politician, lawyer and journalist, member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). He became a deputy, senator, and president of both chambers. In 1981 he founded the Social Democratic Party (PSD), which nominated him as a candidate for president of Mexico towards the federal elections on Sunday, 19820704. That party lost its registration in that same year of 1982. He completed his basic studies in your natal city. Later he studied at the National Preparatory School and the National School of Jurisprudence of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), from which he graduated with a law degree with a thesis on amparo in 1932. In 1958, he became one of the main speakers during the electoral campaign of the then PRI presidential candidate, Adolfo López Mateos.
Mario Munguía Delgadillo, alias "Matarili" or "Matarili Lirilón" (Guadalajara, Jalisco, 19290817 – Mexico City, 20110427), reporter of the red notes, police notes, or events. He lived in rough neighborhoods in the Federal District, such as Peralvillo. He wrote for the ABC newspaper in Mexico City, a publication that disappeared in 1965. He graduated from the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism. From 1969 to 2011 "Matarili" successively published his column "Matarili, por Lirilón" in the Second Edition of Ovaciones (afternoon newspaper), the sports newspaper El Gráfico and the magazine Ooorale! He sharply and scathingly criticized "half the world": politicians, judges, Public Ministry agents, police officers, businessmen, drug traffickers, criminals, and so on.
Salvador Novo (Mexico City, 19040730 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19740113) Salvador Novo López was a Mexican poet, essayist, playwright and historian, member of the group "Los Contemporáneos" and of the Mexican Academy de la Lengua. His main characteristic, as an author, was his skilful, fast prose, as well as his mischief when writing. Of him, the Mexican literature critic Emmanuel Carballo (1929–2014) noted: "As an essayist, Salvador Novo does not look like anyone." Novo was also a Friday commentator on literature and art on the program "24 Horas", broadcast by XEW–TV Channel 2 of Televisa. Novo published more than 60 books. Some are: In defense of what is used and other essays, Polis, Mexico, 1938; New Mexican greatness, Espasa–Calpe, Mexico, 1947; Brief history of Coyoacán, 1962; Due bills, Universidad Veracruzana, 1962; Jocasta or almost, Editorial Novaro, Mexico, 1970.
Adrian Olea Barreras, "Chacho". His column, in the 1970s and 1980s, was "Digo" in Diario del Yaqui, a morning paper published and printed in Ciudad Obregón, Sonora.
Jorge Orozco y Giron. This journalist from Hermosillo published his column "Glosas Ingenuas" in Heraldo del Yaqui, a daily newspaper from Ciudad Obregón, from 1938 to 1940, when he earned the esteem of the most select social circles of that city. Since the late 1940s he wrote his column for El Imparcial de Hermosillo, the capital city of the State of Sonora.
Vicente Ortega Colunga (Coahuila, 1917 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19850221, lived for about 67 years) journalist and editor. In the 1950s he was director of the Mexican Information Agency (AMI, Agencia Mexicana de Información). The name of the magazine Siempre! (Always!), founded in 1953 by José Pagés Llergo, Ortega, and others, is due to him. In the early 1970s he founded the erotic magazine Your Other Self (Su otro yo), which was not successful.
Founders of the magazine Siempre! (Always!), whose first issue went on sale on Saturday, 19530627:Jose Alvarado
Antonio Arias Bernal
Roberto Blanco Moheno
Rosa Castro (Venezuelan)
Gerardo de Isolbi (first editor–in–chief, author of the book Un pueblo en marcha, 1946)
Hugo A. Diaz
Nemesio Garcia Naranjo
Alvaro Gonzalez Mariscal
Luis Gutierrez and Gonzalez
Renato Leduc
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Manuel Madrigal
Francisco Martinez de la Vega
Vicente Ortega Colunga
José Pagés Llergo (director)
Indalecio Prieto (Spaniard, Republican)
Antonio Rodríguez (Portuguese)
Rafael Solana
Salvador Zapata.
José Pagés Llergo (Villahermosa, Tabasco, 19100920 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19891221). Journalist, founder and director of the weekly Siempre! (Always!). He and his cousin Regino Hernández Llergo founded the magazine Hoy. In Mexico City, he was an office assistant at the newspaper El Demócrata in 1923, and a page editor at El Heraldo de México (the one founded by the revolutionary general Salvador Alvarado Rubio [1880–1924], not the one established by Gabriel Alarcón Chargoy in 1965). In 1928 he traveled to Los Angeles, and served in the newspaper La Opinión, as proofreader, reporter, editor, chief of information, and chief editor. Also, in 1930 he collaborated as a reporter in The Daily News. Upon his return to Mexico, in 1942, Pagés Llergo directed for a few months the then–nascent newspaper El Occidental, in the city of Guadalajara.
Isaac Palacios Martínez (Iguala, Guerrero, 19110603 – Mexico City, 19980822) also known as "The Prince of the Sonnet", was a teacher, writer and poet. He trained as a teacher, in what was then the Federal District, at the Escuela Normal Superior de México, where he passed the proficiency exam in Spanish Language and Literature in 1947. On 19450604, the "prodigal son of Iguala" began his collaborations around the correct use of language, in the newspaper El Universal, where he would remain for more than fifty years, thus becoming the dean of the collaborators of "El Gran Diario de México". He also collaborated for other newspapers, such as Excelsior, El Nacional, El Siglo de Torreón, El Informador from Guadalajara, El Porvenir from Monterrey, Diario de Yucatán, El Dictamen from Veracruz, Ecos del Sur from Iguala and El Heraldo de Taxco, among others. His columns on the Spanish language had different names, such as: "Command", "Correct", "The speck in the other's eye", "Let there be light", "Urbi et orbi" (to the city and to the world). "Errare humanum est", an expression that means "to err is human", in which he reflected his arduous research, academic and linguistic rigor with a spirit of conviction and friendly recommendation to the reader. His poetic work consists of sonnets dedicated mainly to important people in his life, national heroes, objects, fruits and other elements of the Guerrero landscape.
Roberto Palacios Sandoval. He wrote his column "Atalaya" ("Watchtower") in Diario de Colima, during the 1960s.
Cesareo Pandura Talamante. His column was "La Clase Media", in the 1960s and 1970s, in Diario del Yaqui, from Ciudad Obregón.
Joaquín Antonio Peñalosa Santillán (San Luis Potosí City, San Luis Potosí, 19220109 – ibid., 19991117) was a Catholic priest, writer, professor, essayist, and academic. He was ordained a priest in the Cathedral of San Luis Potosí on 19471101. He studied Literature at the Universidad Iberoamericana and obtained his doctorate in 1955. He taught at the Conciliar Seminary of San Luis Potosí, the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosí (UASLP), and the Technological Institute of San Luis Potosí He was the founder of the parish of Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación, in his hometown, which is distinguished by its Spanish style and its "cylinder" shape, due to his fondness for bullfighting. He collaborated in various magazines, including Lectura, Ábside (Apse), Señal, Sembradores (Sowers), Orientación, La Familia, Humanitas, Letras Potosinas, and Revista de la Semana (Magazine of the Week). From 1948 to 1979 he was director of the magazine Estilo (Style). He also wrote for the newspapers El Heraldo de San Luis Potosí, and El Universal.
A few awards and distinctions:
Rosa de Oro, for his "Songs to the joy of Mary", during the Marian Congress of 1954.
Club España Journalism Award, in 1954.
Gold Medal from Casa Madero, for having founded the "Hogar del Niño", 1958.
Medal for the Best Citizen, by the Congress of San Luis Potosí, in 1994.
Published works:
Poetic entrails of the National Anthem, 1955.
Miguel M. de la Mora, the bishop for all, 1963.
A minute of silence, 1966.
The Mexican and the seven deadly sins, 1972.
I am Felix de Jesus, 1973.
One Hundred Mexicans and God, 1975.
Praise of the chair, 1977.
The angel and the brothel, 1977.
Life, passion and death of the Mexican: notes on regional manners and customs, 1985.
Guadalupana poetry: 19th century, 1985.
Viceregal Letters of San Luis Potosí, 1988.
Literature of San Luis Potosí of the 19th century, 1991.
Surroundings of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 1997.
Humor with holy water, 1997.
More humor with less holy water, 1998.
Small talks for boyfriends and girlfriends, 1968.
José Pérez Chowell (Mexico City, Federal District, 19450919 – 2011). Lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (generation 1964–1969, disciple of Luis Recasens Siches, Ignacio Burgoa Orihuela and Arsenio Farell Cubillas), he arrived in Irapuato, Guanajuato, from Mexico City, in the early 1980s. He was a book and insurance seller. He also dedicated himself to journalism and teaching. He was a contributor to Impacto (Impact) magazine. He was the author of denunciation novels, such as El guarura (The bodyguard), Editorial Universo, 1979; Secret Agent; Mr. Bureaucrat. He was a heavy smoker.
Carlos Pinedo Sauza; in the 1950s, he gave his opinion in Diario de Colima, when writing his column "Periscope". For example, see page 2 of the Diario de Colima, from Sunday, 19540919: Periscope, as well as page 2 of the same newspaper, from Sunday, 19541128: Periscope.
Carlos Pizano y Saucedo (died on 19971120). From Colima, this journalist and public relations character personage in Guadalajara. In the 1980s he wrote a column called "Carnet" for the newspaper El Occidental. Later he published his column, with the same name, in the morning paper Ocho Columnas (Eight Columns), from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara (UAG). The last issue of this newspaper went on sale on 20110722.
P. Lussa (Guadalajara, 19010224 –?). In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, he wrote a Sunday column titled "Charlas de sobremesa" ("After-dinner Chats"), in the Guadalajara newspaper El Informador. His real name was Ignacio Gutiérrez Hermosillo. He was editor–in–chief of the aforementioned newspaper. In August 1954, his book El secuestro de mi compadre went on sale. In 1981 his book Charlas de sobremesa went on sale. Perhaps he was the brother of the Guadalajara poet Alfonso Gutiérrez Hermosillo (1905–1935).
Mario Rivas Hernández (State of Durango, 19460226 – Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, 20211102; his life spanned during 75 years). He published his daily column "Rumbos" ("Courses") in the morning daily newspaper Tribuna del Yaqui, from Ciudad Obregón, Sonora, until 20210910, for almost 33 years.
Armando Rodríguez Suárez (Pachuca, 1919 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19950816). Journalist, fighter for social conquests in Mexico. Rodríguez Suárez wrote in various Mexican newspapers, such as El Día, and in the magazines Política (defunct, directed by the late Manuel Marcué Pardiñas) and Siempre! (Always!). Along with other Latin American journalists, he founded the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina (PL) on 19590616, with the support of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Ernesto "Che" Guevara.
Jose Natividad Rosales. He wrote articles in the magazine Siempre! (Always!) in the 1950s. He also wrote articles for the weekly magazine Duda. The Incredible is the Truth, directed by Guillermo Mendizábal (1933–2002, founder of Editorial Posada in 1968); for example, "Criminal insecticides. We are poisoning the water, the land and the air!", "What did El Che do in Mexico? Photos and unknown documents 5 years after his death." He wrote several books, including: Behind the bars of the Vatican. Secret mission in the Vatican (Mex Editores Book).
Nicolás Sánchez–Osorio (Puebla, Puebla, ? – Mexico City, 20060824). He wrote in El Sol de Puebla and La Voz de Puebla, he emigrated to the Federal District, where he wrote the column "Los Cuic" for El Heraldo de México. In the 1970s he published his column "Novíssimo" in the newspaper Novedades. He edited the magazine Casas & Gente. In addition, he wrote for the capital city newspaper Reforma. He died in his house in Las Lomas de Chapultepec, Mexico City.
Rosario Sansores Prén (Mérida, Yucatán; 18890825 – Mexico City, Federal District; 19720107) was a precocious Mexican poet and journalist, known for works such as "When you have gone." She was born into a wealthy family. At fourteen years of age she married Cuban Antonio Sangenis and she moved to Havana, where she lived for 23 years. During the time that she lived in Cuba, she dedicated herself to writing articles on social issues in newspapers and magazines. In 1911 she began to publish books of her poetry, most of them signed under pseudonyms. In 1918, when Rosario Sansores was 29 years old, her husband died. She subsequently published works of poetry such as While Life Is Going (1925) and Routes of Emotion (1954). Sansores declared herself contrary to modern trends in poetry (from the mid–twentieth century), and declared herself corny: "Yes, yes, people say I'm corny. Imagine if I don't know. But it doesn't worry me. On the contrary , I'm flattered. People who know I'm corny show they've read me, and that's all that matters." She returned to Mexico in 1932 with her two daughters, and specifically to the capital city, where she was a columnist for the Social section of the newspapers Hoy and Novedades. In 1933 she published the collection of poems La novia del sol (The girlfriend of Sun), which included 104 poems, among which she highlighted "When you have gone." Years later the poem was read by the Ecuadorian composer Carlos Brito Benavides, who set the lyrics to music to create the song "Sombras" ("Shadows").
Julio Scherer García (Mexico City, 19260407 – Mexico City, 20150107) Mexican journalist and writer, director of the newspaper Excelsior from 1968 to 1976. He was the founder of the weekly magazine Proceso.
Rafael Solana Salcedo (Veracruz, Veracruz, 19150807 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19920906). Journalist and writer of the dramatic and narrative genre representative of various modernist and surrealist works at the end of the 20th century. He cultivated all literary genres: poetry, short stories, novels, theater, essays, and chronicles. He studied at the National Preparatory School and in the faculties of Law, and Philosophy and Letters (1930–1937) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He co–founded the magazines Taller Poético (1936–1938) and Taller (1938–1940). Published more than 35 books, including: Ladera (Hillside, his first book, in 1934), La música por dentro (The music inside) (1943), Leyendo a Lotti (Reading Lotti) (1951), Second class dressing room (1955), A su imagen y semejanza (In his image and likeness) (1957), Vestida y alborotada (Dressed and Rowdy) (1965), Pellizque en otras partes (Pinch Elsewhere) (1987), Una vejez tranquila (A Quiet Old Age) (1988).
Luis Suarez. (Seville, 1918 – Mexico City, 2003). Mexicanized Spaniard. Republican, leftist, exiled. He arrived in Mexico in 1939. He wrote committed "to the oppressed peoples," and I would add: "and against injustices", from a different trench than that of the comic book hero Superman, who, by shedding his Clark Kent clothes (brilliant reporter for the newspaper The Planet, boyfriend or pretender / wooeer of Luisa Lane, and friend of Jaime Olsen, also a journalist) displayed his cape and began his flight while shouting: "Let's fight for justice!"
Enguerrando Tapia Quijada (Cananea, Sonora, 1935 – Tucson, Arizona, 19810607). He was director of the now defunct newspaper from Hermosillo, El Sonorense, and general director of Periódicos Sonorenses (PS), publishing company of the newspapers: El Informador del Mayo, Tribuna del Yaqui, La Voz del Puerto (Guaymas), El Sonorense (Hermosillo), and La Voz del Norte (Nogales). The name of his daily column was: "My Notebook of Notes". On Sundays: "Sunday Popcorn".
Ernesto Julio Teissier Flores (Saltillo, Coahuila, 19230921 – 20100413) he lived his childhood in the city of Zaragoza, in the municipality of Zaragoza (State of Coahuila), south of the border municipality of Acuña. The name of his column was: "Report on Politics", published in Novedades and in other newspapers. Various Mexican radio stations broadcast his views on politics in the second half of the 20th century.
Emilio Uranga (Mexico City, 1921 – ibid., 19881031). He was a Mexican philosopher who developed the fields of reflection about the philosophical experience and the reality on which it is based. He was greatly influenced by the philosophical school of the Spanish José Gaos (1900–1969). He was a member of El Colegio de México since 1951. During the 1950s and 1960s he was an ideologue of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).
Edmundo Valadés Mendoza (Guaymas, Sonora, 19150222 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19941130). He was a storyteller, journalist, editor and intellectual. He worked for many years as a journalist for Hoy (Today) and Así (Thus) magazines. Later he joined the Mexican newspaper Novedades, in which he was a reporter, editorial writer and editorial director. At the same time, he published literary criticism columns in the newspapers El Día, Excelsior, and Unomásuno.
José Santos Valdés García de León (Rancho Camargo, municipality of Matamoros, Coahuila, 19051101 – 19900805). Poet, rural normal teacher, journalist. He was a normal teacher at the Talamantes Elementary School, in Navojoa, Sonora. Left–wing character, critic of socioeconomic injustice in Mexico. Since he was young, he was a promoter for adolescents and young women to study beyond primary school, including Normal, High School and in universities. He cultivated journalism, biographical, monographic, poetic and essay research. He wrote combative columns in magazines of the Mexican teachers. Valdés was a columnist who wrote caustic articles published in El Siglo de Torreón, El Mundo, from Tampico; El Heraldo de San Luis Potosí; El Porvenir, from Monterrey; and El Día, from Mexico City, as well as in the magazines Siempre! (Always!) and Política (Politics) (the latter, by Manuel Marcué Pardiñas) with national circulation.
Antonio Vargas MacDonald. He wrote some books, including: Towards a new oil policy, Editorial Promoción, 1969. Letters from a Mexican to President Kennedy, 1962. He was a deputy to the XLV (45) Mexican Federal Legislature, from 19610901 to 19640831.
Elvira Vargas Rivera (Tlalpujahua, Michoacán, 19061228 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19670307). She was one of the first Mexican female reporters (a title she shares with Magdalena Mondragón and Esperanza Velázquez Bringas.) In 1920 she moved to Mexico City, where she began her studies at the National Preparatory School (ENP) of San Ildefonso. In 1929 she participated in the Vasconcelista movement and in the newspaper of this current: El Momento. She was, in the 1930s, the only woman who covered the presidential source. In 1958 she obtained a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with the thesis Agrarian reform and neolatifundismo in Mexico. She was an editor at El Nacional and after El Universal published her work and reports on oil workers and oil expropriation, she returned to El Nacional, as editor–in–chief (1931–1938). She was also a columnist at Cadena García Valseca (1946–1952). In 1953 and following years she was a contributor to Novedades; She later worked as a reporter and director in El Diario de la Tarde (1959) and in the magazines Hoy, Mañana and Siempre!, among others. She wrote about "the life of [oil] workers and the exploitation they lived in when the owners were foreigners". Companies like El Águila (The Eagle) were harshly portrayed by her. In an interview in El Nacional, dated 19380310, the writer recounts how she was threatened because of those reports. Her book Por las rutas del Sureste (Through the Southeast routes) was published by Editorial Cima in 1940. In it, the author describes the people, poverty and the beauty of the landscape of Campeche, Tabasco, Yucatán and Chiapas. It includes some reflections on the situation of the Indians and the actions of the government of Lázaro Cárdenas to help them. A mitad de la jornada. Tres años de gobierno (In the middle of the day. Three years of government) (1946–1949) is an analysis of the first three years of the government of President Miguel Alemán Valdés "and the measures adopted to advance in matters of education, transportation, works and oil".
Mario Vazquez Jimenez. Journalist, he was born in Acaponeta, Nayarit. In 1948 he was directing the newspaper La Voz de Tecuala. The northern Nayarita municipality of Tecuala limits to the north with the municipality of Escuinapa, State of Sinaloa; to the west, with the Pacific Ocean. In the 1950s, Vázquez Jiménez reported and wrote for the capital newspaper Excelsior. In 1957 he was invited by the Sonoran governor, Álvaro Obregón Tapia, to be head of Press for the state government of Sonora
Esperanza Velázquez Bringas (Orizaba, 1899 – Mexico City, Federal District, 19800515). Journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, librarian, feminist. She is considered a pioneer in interviews conducted by women in Mexico. She was the first female director of the National Library of Mexico, in 1929, the first female magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice of the Federal District (TSJDF, Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Distrito Federal), in 1947, and the first woman minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, in 1961. At the age of 18 she began to publish in the newspaper El Pueblo; later, in El Heraldo de México and El Universal, as well as El Popular (The Popular), and Tierra, Portavoz del Oprimido (Land, Spokerperson for the Oppressed), in Yucatán. She was head of the library department of the Secretariat of Public Education (SEP. Secretaría de Educación Pública) and later was director of the National Library of Mexico. She was appointed by Lázaro Cárdenas as Agent of the Public Defender of Criminal Law in 1935. Velázquez Bringas conducted interviews with people such as Gabriela Mistral, José Vasconcelos, and Carlos Mérida, and compiled the speeches of politician Plutarco Elías Calles. She worked with Diego Rivera and Rafael Heliodoro. She edited texts by Leon Tolstoy, Simón Bolívar, Rosa Luxemburg, and Alfonso Reyes, to address them to a child audience. She was part of political organizations such as the Mexican Labor Party, the Socialist Party, the Press Writers Union, and the Association of Revolutionary Journalists and Writers.
Lola Vidrio (Hacienda de Peñuelas, municipality of San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato, 19071107 – Guadalajara, 19971115). Journalist, social activist and writer. She collaborated in the newspapers El Sol, Novedades, Excelsior, El Occidental, El Informador and Diario de Guadalajara. She won the Jalisco Prize in 1952 for her book Don Nadie y otros cuentos. María de los Dolores Vidrio Beltrán y Puga was taken to live in La Barca, Jalisco, when she was a child. She arrived in Guadalajara in 1920. As a writer she was part of the group of the Bandera de Provincias magazine from Guadalajara, where she published, for example, her story "El cigarro" ("The Cigarette") in 1929, later included in her book Don Nadie y otros cuentos (Don Nobody and other stories). In addition to the Jalisco Prize for Journalism, achieved in 1952, he won first place in the Second Annual "Ramón López Velarde" Literature Contest, in 1955, with his work Tierra colorada (Red Land). That same year she won, with La política es así (Politics is this way), the prize of the XXVI Juegos Florales Potosinos. As a left–wing journalist, she was combative against the PRI governments and the capitalist system, both through the different newspapers for which she wrote, and through the column that she maintained for a decade in the weekly newspaper La Opinión, by Miguel Ochoa. She was also a Mexican suffragette. She was a pioneer of women's journalism in Guadalajara, and a defender of human rights. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a very active participant in the evening gatherings at Café Apolo, located on Calle Galeana almost on the corner with Avenida Juárez, in downtown Guadalajara, where they used to go: Adalberto Navarro Sánchez, his wife, María Luisa Hidalgo; Alfredo Leal Cortés, Olivia Zúñiga, Arturo Rivas Sainz, Carlos Enrigue Villaseñor, Salvador Echavarría, Ramón Rubín, Ernesto Flores, Ignacio Arzapalo, Emmanuel Carballo, Manuel Guerrero, Alfonso Toral Moreno, among other writers, as well as the painters Julio Vidrio, Gabriel Flores, and some more. She was co–founder of the Universidad Femenina de Guadalajara (Women's University of Guadalajara), at Avenida Alemania 1338, Colonia Moderna, Guadalajara. She smoked Faros cigarettes. The last years of her life were spent in a large manor house in Colonia Seattle, in Zapopan, Jalisco.
Vicente Villa. Film, music and television critic. In the 1970s, he wrote his column "Tele Color" in the magazine Tele Guía, edited, printed and published by Editorial Televisa.
Francisco Zarco (in full, Joaquín Francisco Zarco Mateos) (Durango City, State of Durango, 18291204 – Mexico City, 18691222). Politician, journalist, historian, prose writer and poet. Member of the Constituent Congress of 1856–1857 and liberal writer of the Reform. His journalistic work had great importance and uniqueness in the Mexican press, and for it he later suffered persecution and imprisonment.
In Spain:
Manuel Porras Alcántara, better known as Manuel Alcántara, and Manolo Alcántara (Málaga, 19280110 – ibid., 20190417) was a Spanish journalist and poet. He published at least one daily article in various national newspapers for more than sixty years without interruption, becoming the longest–running columnist and audience in Spain. A contributor to historical newspapers such as Pueblo, Marca or Diario Sur, he stood out in the interpretation of political, social and cultural news, as well as in the analysis of the sports disciplines of soccer and boxing. His style combined irony and a sense of poetry with a proverbial capacity for synthesis. It is estimated that he wrote more than 30,000 articles. He received various distinctions; among them, the prestigious César González–Ruano Award, in 1978.
In the United States of America:
A.J. Liebling (New York, N.Y., 19041018 – ibid., 19631228). Influential American–Jewish journalist closely associated with The New Yorker magazine from 1935 until his death. Abbott Joseph Liebling, born into a wealthy family on the Upper East Side of the island of Manhattan, was known for not uttering a word during the first minutes of his interviews. He limited himself to fixedly and defiantly observing the personages and VIP (generally politicians, legislators) with an "almost hypnotizing" look, hoping that they would start talking without question, about their life, the current situation, their jobs, ups and downs, or whatever; also, for the aphorism "Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one", which was first written by him in The New Yorker in 1960. He was somewhat of a womanizer, and a great gourmet. He died of bronchopneumonia at Mount Sinai Hospital, on the island of Manhattan, in the State of New York.
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