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Zeta is distributed primarily in Baja California, in the cities of Tijuana, Tecate, Rosarito, Ensenada, and Mexicali. [ 2 ] It was founded in 1980 by Jesús Blancornelas , known as "the spiritual godfather of modern Mexican journalism", [ 3 ] [ 4 ] along with Héctor Félix Miranda and Francisco Ortiz Franco .
J. Jesús Blancornelas (November 14, 1936 – November 23, 2006) [1] was a Mexican journalist who co-founded the Tijuana-based Zeta magazine, known for its reporting on corruption and drug trafficking.
Héctor Félix Miranda (c. 1941 – April 20, 1988) [1] was a Mexican journalist and columnist of the Tijuana-based Zeta magazine, which reported on corruption and drug trafficking. In the late 1970s, he began to work for the daily newspaper ABC under Jesús Blancornelas and wrote under the name "Félix el Gato" ("Felix the Cat") to criticize ...
Sánchez Taboada is a borough of the municipality of Tijuana in Baja California, Mexico, and is located south of the city center and southwest of La Mesa. [1] The borough was named after Mexican military general and politician Rodolfo Sánchez Taboada, who acted as the governor of the territory of Baja California from 1937-1944.
Grupo Zeta was a Spanish media conglomerate which owned several newspapers and magazines. Founded by Antonio Asensio in 1976, it launched the magazines Interviú and Tiempo before its most successful title, the daily newspaper El Periódico de Catalunya. From 1986 to 2017, it owned the publishing house Ediciones B. In 2008, debts of €140 ...
Rogelio González Pizaña, also known as Z-2 or El Kelin, [2] was born in Mexico on 1 March 1974. [3] In the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel leader Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, fearing his rivals, decided to form an elite armed squadron to protect him. The group, which became known as Los Zetas, was mostly composed of former members of the Mexican ...
In March 1976, during the Spanish transition to democracy, Asensio and four friends founded Grupo Zeta with himself as president. The starting capital was 500,000 Spanish pesetas. Their first title was the magazine Interviú, which combined news with semi-naked women. It started in May with a circulation of 100,000, and rose to 1 million in 1978.
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press. [1] Though the exact figures of those killed are often conflicting, [2] [3] press freedom organizations around the world agree through general consensus that Mexico is among the most dangerous countries on the planet to exercise journalism ...