Document #1253580
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
A listing of Mexican publications states
that Quehacer Político is a weekly magazine of
national circulation, founded on 23 August 1982 by Miguel Canton
Zetina, a renowned journalist from Tabasco (MexicoWeb Guide 1996).
A magazine listing published by the Press Bureau of the Presidency
of Mexico and a listing published by the media-monitoring
Fundación Buendia provide the same information on the
magazine:
Quehacer Político
Director: Miguel Cantón Zetina
Executive Director: Engelbert Alberto Esquerra Aragón
Address: Doctor Andrade 437, Col. Buenos Aires
México, D. F.
Ph.: 538-7062, Fax: 538-7065
Miguel Cantón Zetina is named as the
owner and director general of the Acuario editorial group
(Organización Editorial Acuario), publisher of the daily
Tabasco Hoy since 1987, of which Mr. Cantón Zetina
is also director (Tabasco Hoy 1999).
A review of incidents against the press in
Mexico during the first two years of the Zedillo administration
reports the following incidents in 1996 (Fundacion
Buendía/Revista Mexicana de Comunicación 25
Jan. 1999):
In January 1996, agents of the municipal
government of Acapulco, in Guerrero State, bought from magazine
kiosks the copies of Quehacer Político in which it
was alleged that the mayor had illicitly enriched himself.
In September of the same year, the Attorney
General's Office (PGR) in the state of Guerrero linked 15
journalists with the EPR terrorist group; among them, Angel Blanco
Morales of Quehacer Político.
In November 1996 the president of TV Azteca
sued several journalists for libel and slander, including Jorge
Cantón Zetina, Gabriel del Río, Juan Sánchez
Mendoza, Humberto Huerta Mireles, David Casco Sosa and Adriana
Salazar Juárez, of the magazine Quehacer
Político. At least some of the lawsuits were launched
in relation to reports of alleged deals involving the broadcaster
and his links to Raúl Salinas de Gortari.
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References
Fundación Buendía, Mexico
City. n.d. "Revistas." [Internet] http://www.cem.itesm.mx/dacs/buendia/agenda/revistas.html
[Accessed 26 May 1999]
Fundación
Buendía/Revista Mexicana de Comunicación
[Mexico City]. 25 January 1999. "Bitácora de Hechos
1994-1996." [Internet] http://www.cem.itesm.mx/dacs/
buendia/agravios/ale9496.html [Accessed 26 May 1999]
Mexico Web Guide. 1996. "Revistas."
[Internet] http://spin.com.mx/~portillor/noticias.html
[Accessed 26 May 1999]
Presidencia de la República, Sala
de Prensa/Comunicación Social, Mexico City. 15 April 1999.
"Revistas." [Internet] http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/pages/vocero/dcs/d-revista.html
[Accessed 26 May 1999]
Tabasco Hoy [Villahermosa,
Tab.]. n.d. "Quiénes somos?" [Internet] http://www.tabascohoy.com.mx/tascohoy/quienes.htm
[Accessed 27 May 1999]