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| Categories | News magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Founder | Doris Gibson |
| Founded | 1950 |
| Country | Peru |
| Based in | Lima |
| Language | Spanish |
| Website | caretas |
| ISSN | 0576-7423 |
Caretas (lit. 'Masks',Spanish:[kaˈɾe.t̪as]) is a weeklynewsmagazine published inLima,Peru, renowned for itsinvestigative journalism.
Caretas was founded in October 1950[1] byDoris Gibson andFrancisco Igartua.
In the mid-1950s, Gibson's son,Enrique Zileri, returned from Europe (from where he had been making contributions for the magazine) to joinCaretas. Not long after, Igartua departed from the magazine and Zileri joined Gibson as co-director.
After several years of monthly publication,Caretas began to be published semi-monthly, and, since 1979, weekly.[1] A new edition currently appears every Thursday.
Caretas focuses on Peruvian-related topics, ranging from historiccoups (it was founded duringOdría's regime), corruption scandals,presidential elections, crimes of passion, sports, to wars and terrorism. Since the mid-1980s,Caretas has imitatedTime magazine by naming aMan of the Year in the year-end issue of the magazine, calledPremio a la Resistencia (Prize to the Resistance).
The publication's first all-color cover featured Peruvian modelGladys Zender, who becameLatin America's firstMiss Universe in 1957.
In the first years of the 1990s, Gibson (who in the previous years had stepped down as director to become president of the directory, leaving the whole direction to Zileri) left the magazine due to her advanced age.
In 2005,Caretas launched a second magazine,Ellos&Ellas, published and distributed for free along with it.Ellos&Ellas covers Lima'ssocialité, health and fashion topics.
Zileri remained asCaretas' director up to November 2007, when the magazine reached its 2000th edition. He resigned the position to his son,Marco Zileri, politics editor up to then, and assumed the directory presidency.
