El Sol de México
El Sol de México has been characterized as having pro government ideology aligned with the one of the political party PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party); critical towards the other parties, opposition candidates and their political proposals.
During the 2012 federal elections, Enrique Peña Nieto, who was then the presidetial candidate from the political party PRI lived through the so called “black Friday” when he visited the Ibero-American University. He was received with protests and rejection from the students which obliged him to leave the institution through the back door. The next day, El Sol de México and other newspapers that belong to Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM) had the following headlines: “Success for Peña Nieto after orchestrated boycott intent”.
El Sol de México is also considered as a conservative newspaper since it also distributes the catholic magazine Desde la Fe. This magazine is distributed through other newspapers as well which belong to the OEM.
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Ownership Type
Private
Geographic Coverage
National
Content Type
Paid content
Media Companies / Groups
Organización Editorial Mexicana S.A de C.V
Ownership Structure
El Sol de México belongs to the Organización Editorial Mexicana (OEM), group founded by Mario Vázquez Raña. Currently the management is in the hands of Paquita Ramos de Vázquez. His grandchildren, Francisco Torres Vázquez and Francisco José Torres Cano hold the positions of Executive Vice President and General Director of Sales and of Estudios Tepeyac, respectively.
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General Information
Founding Year
1965
Affiliated Interests Founder
José García Valseca - He was a media magnate who founded the first magazine when he was only 28 years old. In the 1940s, with the help from politicians from the State of Puebla, such as the governor Maximilio Ávila, he starts his own "media empire" by acquiring the newspaper chain El Sol and the sports daily Esto. At the end of the 1940s, he also founded the first school for journalism in the country. The creation of the Day of Freedom of the Press in Mexico is because of García Valseca, when he convinced the President Miguel Alemán to forgive the debt of the printed media companies towards the government company that had monopoly over the paper in Mexico. In 1972, followed by economic difficulties, he sold his media empire of 26 newspapers to Mario Vázquez Raña.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
Paquita Ramos de Vázquez - She is the widow of Mario Vázquez Raña, who was the owner of the media for 39 years. In 2015 Paquita took the ownership of the editorial.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Hiroshi Takahashi - He has been a columnist and collaborator for the magazine Playboy Mexico, for the Heraldo de México, La Silla Rota and CENTRAL. He was also the Digital Editor for Forbes México and was writing for Forbes Magazine for 4 years (2012-2017). In addition to that he held the position of Senior Managing Editor from 2012 to 2017 in Forbes México.
Contact
Address: Guillermo Prieto 7, Colonia San Rafael México, C.P. 06470, México D.F.
Telephone: (55) 5546 9513 y (55) 5140 1000
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