From time to time I run into people who do not know who knew Viceversa. It is true that pop up some confusion, explained mostly by the years that have past but never so unreasonable as displayed in a cultural history of journalism in Mexico Conaculta who published in 2007 and dedicated to the magazine almost as many inaccuracies as lines.
I had the chance to say in person to the author, Humberto Musacchio but as there was no time to go into details I wrote in an email, if the book reached reissued-mail, by the way, which I received no response. Even then I explained that Conversely, backward as it is claimed, was not bi but only during the first of his nearly nine years that its first editor was not "Eduardo Cayuela Gally," that did not work with "a body of editors" and never did a special issue on Octavio Paz. I do not complain because I understand and from which came out the errors identified and omissions that apparently abound that work (a review can be read in http://bit.ly/hTDQeF ).
I think that, Conversely, what most people remember is some special issues, that of Toledo, ecstasy and other designer drugs, that of María Sabina that of Back magazine, the Monsivais ... The latter, for example, not long ago served as information source to the cultural section of the newspaper Reforma inspired him to die. And ... the number of Scherer. I told in this space that the idea of \u200b\u200ba special issue focusing on the founding director of the magazine process was suggested to me by Germain Dehesa one morning in late 1993 on the eve of a year and dramatically moved by the time the Some deluded thought that political change was a real possibility in the country ( http://bit.ly/hXJxrU ). If from the number of Conversely future work on Julio Scherer newspaper could have a fairly complete source of information, we had to start (especially in some areas) almost from scratch. The purpose of this post is to briefly describe the result.
The number 11 Viceversa appeared in April 1994, just days after the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio. Judging by the sales and favorable criticism that arose was the first success of the magazine journalism and, at least in a sense, the most important. One of the notes that were written on the number which was published three days before the presentation very Humberto Musacchio ( Reform, April 24, 1994, Culture-15D). He said that "journals item embedded in the shifting cultural, Viceversa is probably the most attractive and most suggestive." He added the number "there are plenty of inaccuracies and exaggerations, but there are also sensible and sharp criticism, which will host irritated the Strawberry 13 [e-magazine process]."
The number of Scherer was the fourth stage monthly magazine launched In January of that year, after seven numbers often appeared bimonthly. While it is not strictly monograph, the pages devoted to the journalist, published in the form of dossier under the name "Julio Scherer Process", take a little more than half the number, fifty-two out hundred, in delivering more pages of the magazine's history to date.
The cover photo is a close-up Rogelio Cuéllar, notable for being the portrait front, closed, a slippery character, of which at least then it was not easy to find graphic material available. Before entering in itself, is an editorial by Eduardo Vazquez Martin, deputy director of the magazine, on the death of Colosio, illustrated with a wonderful picture Cuartoscuro.
The dossier dedicated to Scherer is divided into four parts. The first discusses his journalistic work, if I can say, more direct and reflected in the literature: while Ricardo Cayuela Gally, editor of Conversely, some studies reviewed in Scherer reporter the years Excelsior sixties and seventies, Monica Braun, an analysis of the literary character based on him in novels of Vicente Journalists Leñero and Gallium War Hector Aguilar Camin.
The second part examines the historical events of July 8, 1976, when a Assembly decides to run from Los Pinos separation by Scherer: first, published an unpublished version of the facts cooperative armed with anonymous testimony and the other an analysis of Fabrizio Mejía Madrid on previously released versions, the section complemented with texts by Roberto Zamarripa, Subcomandante Marcos, Fernando García Ramírez and Carlos Marin on Process magazine, and closes with an analysis of historical circulation of the magazine since its founding.
The third part is, for me, at least according to what I thought then, the best of numbers: the sequence of photos of Excelsior output that Thursday July 8 1976. Everyone knows that the diary was, so to speak, the party from that moment, some journalists were on one side of the river, some of the other. The session Scherer separated from the newspaper's management was recorded by photographer Aaron Sanchez, who for 1994 was used Unomásuno newspaper, the output of journalists beaten by presidential power, and Juan Miranda.
A Aaron Sanchez went to look at Unomásuno , was initially somewhat suspicious, then agreed to help. Juan Miranda, in 1994 photography coordinator process, I ended up making me a friend, to the extent that only a couple of years later I attended closely to his own life experiences that crystallized in his book healers and shamans of the Mazatec Sierra , which I edited. I must say that begin to build the number felt some resistance, and perhaps distrust rather than resistance, all the subtle you want, within Process. Juan Miranda suggested I request an interview with Enrique Maza to expose the idea of \u200b\u200bthe number, show the proposed index and list of contributors.
Maza, a key part of the core management of the journal and one of the men closest to Scherer, was friendly, flexible and happy to say that lightly. As I left the meeting in his little cubicle, next to the very private Scherer I felt relieved atmosphere and the doors began to open. Miranda gave me their images and thus could assemble the complete sequence of the events of the day that for many marks the birth of the independent press in Mexico. In addition to photos of Sanchez and Miranda, the dossier have photos of that Rogelio Cuellar, Marco Antonio Cruz, Roberto Portillo, the Mayo brothers, a picture that is priceless in which it appears that Echeverría and argued by Scherer- Patricia Cieza de León, Pedro Valtierra, Ángeles Torrejón y Eloy Valtierra.
Finally, delivery offers an extensive and valuable mosaic of testimony about the person and work of Scherer. The list of contributors includes, among others, Miguel Angel Granados Chapa (who appears in one of the images that illustrate this article at the time they leave the building every day), Carlos Castillo Peraza, Enrique Gonzalez Pedrero, Heberto Castillo, Carlos Monsivais, Germain Dehesa, Jaime Sanchez Susarrey, Federico Reyes Heroles, Lorenzo Meyer and Enrique Krauze. Left out of number, for reasons of space, the text of Everardo Espino, Julio Faesler, Vicente Lenero and Enrique Maza. Half the number is a caricature of Rogelio Naranjo in which it appears Don Julio with a long tail of a fox ... The number of Scherer was presented on Wednesday April 27, 1994, to all purposes in the library Reform, which was located in front of the newspaper Excelsior , with a panel I moderated and I attended by Federico Reyes Heroles, Raymundo Riva Palacio, and Germain Froylán López Narváez Dehesa.
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For those who want to know how many Scherer or any of the 96 who published the magazine between November 1992 and May 2001 There are complete sets in Vasconcelos Library of Buenavista and Rubén Bonifaz Nuño Philological Research Institute of UNAM.
Almost all the photos that illustrate this issue were scanned in the number 11, April 1994, Viceversa .
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