Julio Scherer García

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The journalist walks with José Narro, Rector of UNAM, in 2011

Julio Scherer García (born April 7, 1926 in Mexico City , † January 7, 2015 in Mexico City) was a Mexican journalist and publisher.

Life

His father, Pablo Scherer, was the son of a German immigrant. His mother came from a family of lawyers.

Julio Scherer was married to Susana Ibarra Puga and had nine children. He died on January 7, 2015, of septic shock, at the age of 88 in Mexico City.

Career

Julio Scherer studied law at the University of Mexico, but then gave up his studies in favor of his journalistic activities.

From 1968 he was editor-in-chief of the cooperatively managed Mexican newspaper Excelsior . In 1976 he was voted out by a minority of the members of the cooperative, presumably under the influence of the then Mexican President Luis Echeverría .

Four months later, on July 19, 1986, he and many former Excelsior journalists founded the independent weekly newspaper Proceso . He resigned as editor-in-chief in 1996, but continued to regularly write columns for the Proceso.

He wrote a total of 22 books and conducted interviews not only with countless Mexican, but also with foreign personalities, such as John F. Kennedy , Zhou Enlai , Fidel Castro and Pablo Picasso .

Works

  • Siqueiros: La piel y la entraña (1965).
  • Los presidentes (1986).
  • El poder: historias de familia (1990).
  • Estos años (1995).
  • Salinas y su imperio (1997).
  • Cárceles (1998), Alfaguara.
  • Parte de guerra, Tlatelolco 1968: documentos del general Marcelino García Barragán: los hechos y la historia (1999), together with Carlos Monsiváis and Marcelino García
  • Pinochet, Vivir Matando (2000).
  • Máxima seguridad (2001).
  • Tiempo de saber: Prensa y poder en México (2003).
  • La pareja (2005).
  • El indio que mató al padre Pro (2005).
  • La terca memoria (2007).
  • La reina del pacífico (2008).
  • Allende en llamas (2008).
  • Secuestrados (2010).
  • Historias de muerte y corrupción (2011).
  • Calderón de cuerpo entero (2012).
  • Vivir (2012).
  • Niños en el crimen (2013).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c ELISABETH MALKIN: Julio Scherer García, Investigative Journalist in Mexico, Dies at 88. The New York Times, January 9, 2015, accessed January 14, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Octavia Paz: Freedom as Fiction. Zeit, August 13, 1976, accessed January 14, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Scherer García, Julio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city
DATE OF DEATH January 7, 2015
Place of death Mexico city