Héctor Aguilar Camín

Héctor Aguilar Camín (born July 9, 1946) is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of Nexos magazine. Nexos was fined and banned for two years (2020-2022) from contracts with the Mexican Government (which had provided the magazine's funds) for illicit financing.^[1] This decision was later reversed by the Tribunal Federal de Justicia Administrativa (TFJA).^[2]

Born in Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Aguilar Camín graduated from the Ibero-American University with a bachelor's degree in information sciences and received a doctorate's degree in history from El Colegio de México. In 1986 he received Mexico's Cultural Journalism National Award and three years later he received a scholarship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation while working as a researcher for the National Institute of Anthropology and History.^{[citation needed]}

As a journalist, he has written for La Jornada (which he also co-edited), Unomásuno and currently for Milenio. He edited Nexos and hosted Zona abierta, a weekly current-affairs show on national television. He has worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) was editorial director of literary magazine Cal y Arena. In 1998 he received the Literature Award for his book Mazatlán: A breath in the river. The jury described him "a brilliant historian".^[3] He is remarried to Ángeles Mastretta and has three sons.

Prizes and recognition

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Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural 1986, categoría de artículo de fondo
Beca Guggenheim (1989)
Medalla al Mérito, estado de Quintana Roo (1992)
Premio Mazatlán de Literatura 1998 por Un soplo en el río
Medalla Gabriela Mistral (Chile) (2001)

Selected books

Toda la vida (2016, novel) ISBN 9786073142595
Adiós a los padres (2015, novel) ISBN 9786073126892
Pensando pendientes y otras historias conversadas (2012, short stories) ISBN 9786070710681
Una agenda para México 2012 (2012, nonfiction) with Jorge G. Castaneda ISBN 978-6071115546
La modernidad fugitiva (Esta edición incluye dos libros clave del autor: Después del milagro, publicado en 1988, y La ceniza y la semilla, publicado en el año 2000. Añade un ensayo sobre la experiencia de los últimos años: Los límites de la democracia mexicana, 2000-2012) ISBN 978-6070711503
Regreso al futuro (2011, essays) with Jorge G. Castaneda ISBN 9786071108517
Informe Jalisco: Más allá de la guerra de las drogas (2010, nonfiction by various authors including Aguilar Camín) ISBN 9786077638766
Un futuro para México (2010, essays) with Jorge G. Castaneda ISBN 9786071104007
La invención de México (2010, essays) ISBN 9786077000617
La tragedia de Colosio (2009, "novela sin ficción") ISBN 9786077000938
Pensando en la izquierda (2008, essays) ISBN 9789681685614
La provincia perdida (2007, novel) ISBN 9789703706044
Pensar en Mexico (2006, essays) ISBN 9789681679835
La conspiración de la fortuna (2005, novel) ISBN 9788408059011
Antologia Letras en el Golfo Festival de Literatura 2003 (2003,various authors including Aguilar Camín) ASIN: B00563O2GY
Mandatos del corazón (2002, novel) ISBN 9789500722568
Las mujeres de Adriano (2002, novel) ISBN 9788420464336
México La ceniza y la semilla (2000 3rd edition, nonfiction) ISBN 978-9684933804
El resplandor de la madera (1999, novel) ISBN 9788420441917
Un soplo en el río (1997, novel) ISBN 9788420483665
El error de la luna (1995, novel) ISBN 9789681902612; reprinted 2010, 2013 ISBN 9789681902612
Diez para los maestros (1993, essays by various authors including Aguilar Camín) ISBN 9789686605068
Subversiones silenciosas: Ensayos de historia y politica de Mexico (Nuevo siglo) (1993, nonfiction) ISBN 978-9681901813
A La Sombra De La Revolución Mexicana (1992, nonfiction); reprinted 2010 with Lorenzo Meyer ISBN 978-9687711317
Historias conversadas (1992, short stories) ISBN 978-9684932432
La guerra de Galio (1990 novel); reprinted 1994 ISBN 9788420481630; 2010 ISBN 9786079357221
Despues del Milagro (1989, nonfiction); reprinted 2010 ISBN 978-9687711164
Historia gráfica de México (1989, with Lorenzo Meyer).
En Torno a La Cultura Nacional (1989, Editor Aguilar Camín) ISBN 978-9682924972
Morir en el Golfo (1985, novel); reprinted 2012 ISBN 9786070710674
México ante la crisis / Volumen 2. El impacto social y cultural. Las alternativas (1985, nonfiction) with Pablo Gonzalez Casanova ISBN 978-9682313455
México ante la crisis / Volumen 1. El contexto internacional y la crisis economica (1985, nonfiction) with Pablo Gonzalez Casanova ISBN 978-9682313387
La decadencia del dragon (1985, nonfiction, 2nd ed) ISBN 978-9684930346
Saldos De La Revolucion: Historia Y Politica De Mexico 1910-1968 (1984, essays) revised 2010 ISBN 978-6070710667
Los Dias de Manuel Buendia: Testimonios (1984, nonfiction) ISBN 978-9684930636
Caudillo and Peasant in the Mexican Revolution, coautor; Cambridge University Press, 1980
Historia: ¿Para qué?, coautor; Siglo XXI, México, 1980
Con el filtro azul (1979, short stories) ISBN 978-9684341098
La frontera nómada, Sonora y la Revolucion Mexicana (history, first edition, Siglo XXI, 1977, second edition 1997, Cal y Arena); 1985 ISBN 9789682906879; 2010 ISBN 978-6077638230
En torno de la cultura nacional, coautor; Instituto Nacional Indigenista, México, 1976

References

^ Animal Politico. "MULTAN E INHABILITAN A EMPRESA DE AGUILAR CAMIN POR 2 AÑOS". animal politico. animalpolitico. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
^ Milenio (11 March 2020). "Tribunal suspende inhabilitación y multa de Función Pública contra revista Nexos". milenio. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
^ "Person Information". Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.

External links

(in Spanish) esmas.com: Héctor Aguilar Camín.

[1] Animal Politico. "MULTAN E INHABILITAN A EMPRESA DE AGUILAR CAMIN POR 2 AÑOS". animal politico. animalpolitico. Retrieved 20 August 2020.

[2] Milenio (11 March 2020). "Tribunal suspende inhabilitación y multa de Función Pública contra revista Nexos". milenio. Retrieved 3 November 2020.

[3] "Person Information". Archived from the original on 22 May 2013. Retrieved 26 January 2014.

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