La Jornada
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La Jornada is one of Mexico City
's leading daily newspaper
s. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor (directora general) is Carmen Lira Saade. La Jornada has presence in seven states of the Mexican Republic with local editions in Guerrero
, Jalisco
, Michoacán
, Morelos
, San Luis Potosí
, Puebla
and Veracruz
(La Jornada de Oriente). It has approximately 287,000 readers in Mexico City, and, according to them, their website has approximately 180,000 daily pageviews.
La Jornada caters to center-left stances, criticizing the PAN
and PRI
administrations, including their economic policies. Its editorials are also sympathetic toward the Zapatista
(EZLN) movement and the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party
and have supported the recently legalized same-sex civil unions in Mexico City and the legalization of abortion
.
The online version was launched in 1995, with no restrictions on access and a Google
-based search that includes the historic archives of the Newspaper. The website is hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico
(UNAM).
Noam Chomsky
has described La Jornada as "the one independent newspaper in the whole hemisphere."
or the Colegio de México.
It occasionally translates and includes op-ed
s from Robert Fisk
, Noam Chomsky
, James Petras
, Howard Zinn
, Greg Palast
and others. Fidel Castro
has also repeatedly contributed to the newspaper as an author.
, Luis González de Alba, Pablo Gómez
and José Paoli Bolio.
Mexico City
Mexico City is the Federal District , capital of Mexico and seat of the federal powers of the Mexican Union. It is a federal entity within Mexico which is not part of any one of the 31 Mexican states but belongs to the federation as a whole...
's leading daily newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...
s. It was established in 1984 by Carlos Payán Velver. The current editor (directora general) is Carmen Lira Saade. La Jornada has presence in seven states of the Mexican Republic with local editions in Guerrero
Guerrero
Guerrero officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Guerrero is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 81 municipalities and its capital city is Chilpancingo....
, Jalisco
Jalisco
Jalisco officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Jalisco is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is located in Western Mexico and divided in 125 municipalities and its capital city is Guadalajara.It is one of the more important states...
, Michoacán
Michoacán
Michoacán officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Michoacán de Ocampo is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 113 municipalities and its capital city is Morelia...
, Morelos
Morelos
Morelos officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Morelos is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 33 municipalities and its capital city is Cuernavaca....
, San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí officially Estado Libre y Soberano de San Luis Potosí is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 58 municipalities and its capital city is San Luis Potosí....
, Puebla
Puebla
Puebla officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Puebla is one of the 31 states which, with the Federal District, comprise the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 217 municipalities and its capital city is Puebla....
and Veracruz
Veracruz
Veracruz, formally Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave officially Estado Libre y Soberano de Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave , is one of the 31 states that, along with the Federal District, comprise the 32 federative entities of Mexico. It is divided in 212 municipalities and its capital city is...
(La Jornada de Oriente). It has approximately 287,000 readers in Mexico City, and, according to them, their website has approximately 180,000 daily pageviews.
La Jornada caters to center-left stances, criticizing the PAN
National Action Party (Mexico)
The National Action Party , is one of the three main political parties in Mexico. The party's political platform is generally considered Centre-Right in the Mexican political spectrum. Since 2000, the President of Mexico has been a member of this party; both houses have PAN pluralities, but the...
and PRI
Institutional Revolutionary Party
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for more than 70 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution , making Mexico one of the few...
administrations, including their economic policies. Its editorials are also sympathetic toward the Zapatista
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is a revolutionary leftist group based in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico....
(EZLN) movement and the left-leaning Democratic Revolutionary Party
Party of the Democratic Revolution
The Party of the Democratic Revolution is a democratic socialist party in Mexico and one of 2 Mexican affiliates of the Socialist International...
and have supported the recently legalized same-sex civil unions in Mexico City and the legalization of abortion
Abortion in Mexico
Abortion is a controversial issue in Mexico, where it is offered on request to any woman up to twelve weeks into a pregnancy in Mexico City, but forbidden in 18 out of 31 Mexican state constitutions...
.
The online version was launched in 1995, with no restrictions on access and a Google
Google
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-based search that includes the historic archives of the Newspaper. The website is hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México is a university in Mexico. UNAM was founded on 22 September 1910 by Justo Sierra as a liberal alternative to the Roman Catholic-sponsored Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (National Autonomous...
(UNAM).
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
has described La Jornada as "the one independent newspaper in the whole hemisphere."
Contributors
Many of the newspaper's editorialists have academic affiliations with the UNAMUnam
UNAM or UNaM may refer to:* National University of Misiones, a National University in Posadas, Argentina*National Autonomous University of Mexico , the large public autonomous university based in Mexico City...
or the Colegio de México.
- Julio Hernández López
- Jose Steinsleger
- Eduardo GaleanoEduardo GaleanoEduardo Hughes Galeano is a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego and Las venas abiertas de América Latina which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and...
(Former Contributor) - Miguel Angel Rivera
- Carlos Fernández-Vega
- Alfredo Jalife Rahme
- Julio Boltvinik Kalinka
- Marlene Santos
- Patricia Peñaloza
- Mario Di Costanzo
- Gustavo Iruegas
- Iván Restrepo
- Arnoldo Kraus
- Enrique Galvan Ochoa
- Carlos Fazio
- Gustavo EstevaGustavo EstevaGustavo Esteva is a Mexican activist, "deprofessionalized intellectual" and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. He is one of the best known advocates of Post-Development.-Life:...
- León Bendesky
- Elena PoniatowskaElena PoniatowskaElena Poniatowska is a Mexican journalist and author. Her generation of writers include Carlos Fuentes, José Emilio Pacheco and Carlos Monsiváis.-Life:Poniatowska was born in Paris to Prince Jean Joseph Evremont Sperry Poniatowski and Paula Amor Yturbe...
- Hermann BellinghausenHermann BellinghausenHermann Bellinghausen is a Mexican physician, poet, writer, and editor.-Career:Bellinghausen was born in Mexico City in 1953. He obtained his MD from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He has served as collaborator on the Mexican weekly magazines En Solidaridad and Mundo Médico and as an...
- José Cueli
- Leonardo Garcia Tsao
- Mario BenedettiMario BenedettiMario Benedetti was an Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet....
- Carlos MonsivaisCarlos MonsiváisCarlos Monsiváis Aceves was a Mexican writer, critic, political activist, and journalist. of French decent He also wrote political opinion columns in leading newspapers and was considered to be an opinion leader within the country's progressive sectors. His generation of writers includes Elena...
- John Saxe Fernandez
It occasionally translates and includes op-ed
Op-ed
An op-ed, abbreviated from opposite the editorial page , is a newspaper article that expresses the opinions of a named writer who is usually unaffiliated with the newspaper's editorial board...
s from Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk
Robert Fisk is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. As Middle East correspondent of The Independent, he has primarily been based in Beirut for more than 30 years. He has published a number of books and has reported on the United States's war in Afghanistan and the same country's...
, Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky
Avram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
, James Petras
James Petras
James Petras is a retired Bartle Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada who has published prolifically on Latin American and Middle Eastern political issues.-Academic and...
, Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
, Greg Palast
Greg Palast
Gregory Allyn Palast is a New York Times-bestselling author and a freelance journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as the British newspaper The Observer. His work frequently focuses on corporate malfeasance but has also been known to work with labor unions and consumer...
and others. Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
has also repeatedly contributed to the newspaper as an author.
Censorship
Since its conception, the newspaper has been accused of censorship, being ideologically driven, biased, having an unfair process for choosing its editor, among other things, by people like Sergio AguayoSergio Aguayo
Sergio Aguayo Quezada is a Mexican academic and human rights activist. He has been a professor and researcher for El Colegio de México since 1977 and a member of the Mexican Researchers National System -Biography:Sergio Aguayo is a Researcher at Colegio de México and has taught at the Centro...
, Luis González de Alba, Pablo Gómez
Pablo Gómez
Pablo Gómez is a classical guitarist from Mexico, specializing in contemporary music. He studied with Magnus Andersson in Stockholm, Sweden. He teaches at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura. He has given the premieres of various contemporary works.-Recordings: -External links:*...
and José Paoli Bolio.
External links
Official website- http://www.google.com/custom?hl=en&cof=BIMG%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%2Fimages%2FUSAbkgd.jpg%3BAH%3Aleft%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2FWORLDMEETS.US%2Fimagesui%2Fwalogo_siteid.gif%3BLH%3A90%3BLW%3A213%3BBGC%3A%23e9f9e9%3BT%3A%2300354f%3BVLC%3A%230000ff%3BGALT%3A%230000cc%3B&domains=WORLDMEETS.US&q=La+Jornada&sitesearch=WORLDMEETS.USEnglish translations of La Jornada articles available at nonprofit WorldMeets.US]
