Proceso (magazine)

Mexican magazine

Proceso

Cover featuring Carmen Aristegui (February 13, 2011)

Editor| Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda
Categories| News magazine
Founder| Julio Scherer García
First issue| November 6, 1976; 48 years ago (1976-11-06)
Company| Comunicación e Información, S.A. de C.V.
Country| Mexico
Based in| Mexico City
Language| Spanish
Website| www.proceso.com.mx
ISSN| 1665-9309

Proceso (Spanish: Process) is a left-wing Mexican news magazine published in Mexico City. It was founded in 1976 by journalist Julio 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]

## History

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### Political pressure on Excélsior

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The magazine debuted on November 6, 1976, during the term of President Luis Echeverría Álvarez, after political pressure caused Scherer to be expelled from his position of editor of Excélsior.[4][5] Artists and intellectuals donated paintings, ceramics, sculptures and photographs to be auctioned to finance Comunicación e Información, S.A. (CISA), the magazine's publishing company.[citation needed]

### Foundation

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Scherer and other ex-columnists and reporters founded Proceso, 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 of Proceso, Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, quit to join the newspaper Unomásuno. Then Gastón García Cantú, a columnist, left the publication because of an article published in Proceso questioning his appointment as director of the National Institute of Anthropology and History. During the presidency of José López Portillo (a cousin of Scherer) there was a flirting with the magazine that finished with López Portillo's anger, saying No 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, covered Vicente 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 book El fenómeno Fox: la historia que Proceso censuró.[6]

### Fox presidency

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In 2003, Argentine author Olga Wornat published La jefa ("She-chief") about the wife of President Vicente Fox, Marta Sahagún, and her sons. Federal deputy Ricardo 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 in Proceso 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 del Distrito 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 titled Amistades peligrosas ("Dangerous friendships"), wherein Raquenel Villanueva, a lawyer who has defended drug kingpins, declares she met Fernando Bribiesca Sahagún, son of Marta, in 2003 with Jaime Valdez Martinez, a client of hers. The Procuraduría General de la República considers Valdez one of the representatives of drug cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera. Currently, the Chamber of Deputies is investigating the Bribiesca sons.[citation needed]

Shortly after the death of Pope 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]

## Staff

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### Board

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* President: Julio Scherer García
* Vice president: Vicente Leñero
* Editor: Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda
* Director: Rafael Rodríguez Castañeda

### Columnists

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* Denise Dresser
* Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa
* Carlos Monsiváis
* Carlos Montemayor
* Canek Sánchez Guevara
* Carlos Tello
* Jorge Volpi

### Reporters

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* Regina Martínez Pérez
* Marcela Turati

## References

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1. ^ Michael B. Salwen; Bruce Garrison (5 November 2013). Latin American Journalism. Routledge. p. 132\. ISBN 978-1-136-69133-1. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
2. ^ De Haro, Ana Paula (2012). Mexico Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic. ABC-CLIO. p. 545\. ISBN 978-0313349485. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
3. ^ "Massive Purchases of Mexican News Magazine Reported". Latin American Herald Tribune. Archived from the original on 22 November 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
4. ^ "Journalist Julio Scherer, who challenged Mexico's powerful, dies". NBC News. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
5. ^ Caballero, Alejandro. "Fallece Julio Scherer García". Proceso. Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
6. ^ "Ortiz Pinchetti, despedido de Notimex". Etcetera (in Spanish). January 2002. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 24 December 2021.

## External links

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* Official site (in Spanish)
* ProcesoFoto (in Spanish): Database of images published in the magazine

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