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 Cover featuringCarmen Aristegui (February 13, 2011) | |
| Editor | Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda |
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| Categories | News magazine |
| Founder | Julio Scherer García |
| First issue | November 6, 1976; 49 years ago (1976-11-06) |
| Company | Comunicación e Información, S.A. de C.V. |
| Country | Mexico |
| Based in | Mexico City |
| Language | Spanish |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1665-9309 |
Proceso (Spanish:Process) is aleft-wingMexicannews magazine published inMexico City. It was founded in 1976 by journalistJulio Scherer García,[1] who additionally served as its president until his death in 2015.Proceso was traditionally renowned for its left-wing journalism.[2][3]
The magazine debuted on November 6, 1976, during the term ofPresidentLuis Echeverría Álvarez, after political pressure caused Scherer to be expelled from his position of editor ofExcélsior.[4][5] Artists and intellectuals donated paintings, ceramics, sculptures and photographs to be auctioned to financeComunicación e Información, S.A. (CISA), the magazine's publishing company.[citation needed]
Scherer and other ex-columnists and reporters foundedProceso, edited by CISA. The first years of the magazine were difficult and the board had problems issuing paychecks to its staff. A year later, the director ofProceso,Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, quit to join the newspaperUnomásuno. ThenGastón García Cantú, a columnist, left the publication because of an article published inProceso questioning his appointment as director of theNational Institute of Anthropology and History. During the presidency ofJosé López Portillo (a cousin of Scherer) there was a flirting with the magazine that finished with López Portillo's anger, sayingNo pago para que me peguen ("I don't pay to be beaten") and pressuring the magazine by withdrawing governmental advertisements.[citation needed]
In 2000, Francisco Ortiz Pinchetti, one of the magazine's founders and best known reporters, along with his son, Francisco Ortiz Pardo, a reporter himself, coveredVicente Fox's presidential campaign. One of their texts was changed and mutilated by editorial board, to present Fox in a negative light. After a public correction was published in the magazine, both were expelled without explanations. The story was explained in the bookEl fenómeno Fox: la historia que Proceso censuró.[6]
In 2003,Argentine authorOlga Wornat publishedLa jefa ("The Boss") about the wife of PresidentVicente Fox,Marta Sahagún, and her sons. Federal deputyRicardo Sheffield asked the federal government to investigate the claims of corruption raised by Wornat. In 2005, Wormat published a second book,Crónicas malditas ("Cursed chronicles"), about Sahagún and her sons. An article was published inProceso on February 27 of the same year about the dissolution of Sahagún's first marriage (claims of domestic violence were made against her then-husband) and about the "suspicious" businesses of Sahagún's sons.[citation needed]
On May 3 of the same year, Marta Sahagún filed a civil lawsuit before the Tribunal Superior de Justicia delDistrito Federal (Supreme Tribunal of Justice of the Federal District) against Wornat and Proceso for "moral damages" and breach of privacy.Manuel Bibriesca Sahagún, son of Marta, filed a separate lawsuit against Wornat.[citation needed]
On November 27, 2005,Proceso published an article titledAmistades peligrosas ("Dangerous friendships"), wherein Raquenel Villanueva, a lawyer who has defended drug kingpins, declares she metFernando Bribiesca Sahagún, son of Marta, in 2003 withJaime Valdez Martinez, a client of hers. TheProcuraduría General de la República considers Valdez one of the representatives of drug cartel leaderJoaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. Currently, theChamber of Deputies is investigating the Bribiesca sons.[citation needed]
Shortly after the death ofPope John Paul II,Proceso had the famous cover (April 2005, issue 1484) of a broadly smiling Marta Sahagún dressed in black while her husband was in a press conference after attending the pope's funeral (both Marta and Fox declared themselves devout Christians and traveled to the funeral).[citation needed]
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