''Caretas'' (Masks) is a weekly
newsmagazine
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published in
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of t ...
,
Peru
, image_flag = Flag of Peru.svg
, image_coat = Escudo nacional del Perú.svg
, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
, other_symbol_type = Seal (emblem), National seal
, national_motto = "Fi ...
, renowned for its
investigative journalism
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.
History
''Caretas'' was founded in October 1950
by
Doris Gibson and
Francisco Igartua
Francisco is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the masculine given name '' Franciscus''.
Nicknames
In Spanish, people with the name Francisco are sometimes nicknamed " Paco". San Francisco de Asís was known as ''Pater Comunitatis'' (father o ...
.
In the mid-1950s, Gibson's son,
Enrique Zileri, returned from Europe (from where he had been making contributions for the magazine) to join ''Caretas''. Not long after, Igartua departed from the magazine and Zileri joined Gibson as co-director.
After several years of monthly publication, ''Caretas'' began to be published semi-monthly, and, since 1979, weekly.
[ A new edition currently appears every Thursday.
''Caretas'' focuses on Peruvian-related topics, ranging from historic coups (it was founded during Odría's regime), corruption scandals, ]presidential elections
A presidential election is the election of any head of state whose official title is President.
Elections by country
Albania
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Chile
The ...
, crimes of passion, sports, to wars and terrorism. Since the mid-1980s, ''Caretas'' has imitated ''Time
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'' magazine by naming a Man of the Year __NOTOC__
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in the year-end issue of the magazine, called ''Premio a la Resistencia'' (Prize to the Resistance).
The publication's first all-color cover featured Peruvian model Gladys Zender
Gladys Rosa Zender de Meier (née Zender Urbina; born October 19, 1939) is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who became the first Latin American to win the Miss Universe title. She was crowned Miss Peru Universe 1957 by Miss Peru Universe 1956, ...
, who became Latin America
Latin America or
* french: Amérique Latine, link=no
* ht, Amerik Latin, link=no
* pt, América Latina, link=no, name=a, sometimes referred to as LatAm is a large cultural region in the Americas where Romance languages — languages derived ...
's first Miss Universe
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in 1957.
In the first years of the 1990s, Gibson (who in the previous years had stepped down as director to become president of the directory, leaving the whole direction to Zileri) left the magazine due to her advanced age.
In 2005, ''Caretas'' launched a second magazine, '' Ellos&Ellas'', published and distributed for free along with it. ''Ellos&Ellas'' covers Lima's '' socialité'', health and fashion topics.
Zileri remained as ''Caretas'' director up to November 2007, when the magazine reached its 2000th edition. He resigned the position to his son, Marco Zileri
Marco may refer to:
People
* Marco (given name), people with the given name Marco
* Marco (actor) (born 1977), South Korean model and actor
* Georg Marco (1863–1923), Romanian chess player of German origin
* Tomás Marco (born 1942), Spanish c ...
, politics editor up to then, and assumed the directory presidency.
Notable ''Caretas'' journalists
* Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...
* César Hildebrandt Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
* César Award, a French film award
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* Ce ...
* Alfredo Barnechea
* Gustavo Gorriti
Gustavo Andrés Gorriti Ellenbogen (born 4 February 1948, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian journalist known for his reporting on rebel groups, government corruption, and drug trafficking. In 2011, the European Journalism Centre described him as having ...
* José Rodríguez ElizondoJaime Bedoya
Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...
* Fernando Ampuero
* Luisa Kam Mont
References
External links
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