Nexos
{{Short description|Mexican cultural and political magazine}}
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| editor = Héctor Aguilar Camín
| editor_title = Director
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| category = Culture, Politics
| frequency = Monthly
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| founded = 1978
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| country = Mexico
| based = Colonia Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, Mexico City
| language = Spanish
| website = {{URL|http://www.nexos.com.mx/|link}} (in Spanish)
| issn = 0188-0144
| oclc = 647889089
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Nexos is a cultural and political magazine based in Mexico City, Mexico.{{cite book|author1=Alex Saragoza|author2=Silvia Dolores Z Guzmin|title=Mexico Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v49ppkhgtjMC&pg=PA545|accessdate=1 May 2016|date=January 2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-34948-5|page=545}}
History and profile
Nexos was founded in 1978.{{cite book|author=Philip Russell|title=The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5xdBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA527|accessdate=1 May 2016|date=6 April 2011|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-96828-0|page=527}} The founders were a group of Intellectuals headed by Héctor Aguilar Camín.{{cite book|author=Chappell Lawson|title=Building the Fourth Estate: Democratization and the Rise of a Free Press in Mexico|url=https://archive.org/details/buildingfourthes0000laws|url-access=registration|accessdate=1 May 2016|date=5 August 2002|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-93620-1|page=[https://archive.org/details/buildingfourthes0000laws/page/67 67]}} The magazine modeled on the New York Review of Books. Since the establishment of the magazine a number of leading intellectuals among its writers and contributors, such as José Woldenberg and Wendy Guerra have edited it. The magazine is published on a monthly basis.
The magazine has socialist political views,{{cite book|author=George W. Grayson|title=Prospects for Democracy in Mexico|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ohw8nyJl5UC&pg=PA104|accessdate=1 May 2016|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-3220-5|page=104}} and is a representative of the left-wing cultural and literary establishments in the country.{{cite book|author1=Peter Standish|author2=Steven M. Bell|title=Culture and Customs of Mexico|url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00pete|url-access=registration|accessdate=9 November 2014|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30412-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00pete/page/95 95]}} It supported militant actions to offer social justice and equality to the poor in the 1980s. However, since the leftist government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 in Mexico, the director of Nexos, Hector Aguilar Camín, called for a citizen alliance against López Obrador.{{Cite web|title=Krauze, Aguilar Camín, Castañeda y más llaman a una alianza para evitar que AMLO acabe con la democracia|url=https://www.sdpnoticias.com/nacional/desplegado-alianza-contra-amlo-democracia-krauze-periodico-reforma.html|access-date=2020-08-21|website=SDP|language=es}}
References
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External links
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- {{Official website|http://www.nexos.com.mx/}} (in Spanish)
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Category:1978 establishments in Mexico
Category:Literary magazines published in Mexico
Category:Magazines established in 1978
Category:Mass media in Mexico City
Category:Monthly magazines published in Mexico