''Caretas'' (Masks) is a weekly
newsmagazine
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published in
Lima
Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ...
,
Peru
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, national_motto = "Firm and Happy f ...
, renowned for its
investigative journalism
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.
History
''Caretas'' was founded in October 1950
by
Doris Gibson
Doris Gibson Parra del Riego (28 April 1910 – 23 August 2008) was a Peruvian magazine writer and publisher. She is most noted as the founder and editor of the Peruvian weekly news magazine ''Caretas''.
She has been described as "a feminist b ...
and
Francisco Igartua.
In the mid-1950s, Gibson's son,
Enrique Zileri
Enrique Zileri Gibson (4 June 1931 – 24 August 2014) was the publisher of ''Caretas'' (Masks), Peru's leading newsmagazine, which was cofounded by his mother Doris Gibson. He ran the magazine as "a symbol of resistance" against successive Peru ...
, returned from Europe (from where he had been making contributions for the magazine) to join ''Caretas''. Not long after, Igartua departed from the magazine and Zileri joined Gibson as co-director.
After several years of monthly publication, ''Caretas'' began to be published semi-monthly, and, since 1979, weekly.
[ A new edition currently appears every Thursday.
''Caretas'' focuses on Peruvian-related topics, ranging from historic coups (it was founded during Odría's regime), corruption scandals, ]presidential elections
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Elections by country
Albania
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Chile
The pre ...
, crimes of passion, sports, to wars and terrorism. Since the mid-1980s, ''Caretas'' has imitated ''Time
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'' magazine by naming a Man of the Year in the year-end issue of the magazine, called ''Premio a la Resistencia'' (Prize to the Resistance).
The publication's first all-color cover featured Peruvian model Gladys Zender
Gladys Rosa Zender de Meier (née Zender Urbina; born October 19, 1939) is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who became the first Latin American to win the Miss Universe title. She was crowned Miss Peru Universe 1957 by Miss Peru Universe 1956, ...
, who became Latin America
Latin America or
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's first Miss Universe
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in 1957.
In the first years of the 1990s, Gibson (who in the previous years had stepped down as director to become president of the directory, leaving the whole direction to Zileri) left the magazine due to her advanced age.
In 2005, ''Caretas'' launched a second magazine, '' Ellos&Ellas'', published and distributed for free along with it. ''Ellos&Ellas'' covers Lima's '' socialité'', health and fashion topics.
Zileri remained as ''Caretas'' director up to November 2007, when the magazine reached its 2000th edition. He resigned the position to his son, Marco Zileri, politics editor up to then, and assumed the directory presidency.
Notable ''Caretas'' journalists
* Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (born 28 March 1936), more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa (, ), is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician, who also holds Spanish citizenship. Vargas Ll ...
* César Hildebrandt
* Alfredo Barnechea
Isaac Alfredo Barnechea García (born 19 May 1952) is a Peruvian journalist and politician. In the 2016 elections, he ran for President of Peru under the Acción Popular party, finishing in fourth place. He was among the potential candidates for ...
* Gustavo Gorriti
Gustavo Andrés Gorriti Ellenbogen (born 4 February 1948, Lima, Peru) is a Peruvian journalist known for his reporting on rebel groups, government corruption, and drug trafficking. In 2011, the European Journalism Centre described him as havi ...
* José Rodríguez Elizondo
José Alejandro Vladimir Rodríguez Elizondo (born 10 June 1936) is a Chilean lawyer and diplomat who was awarded with the National Prize of Humanities and Social Sciences in 2021. He finished his Bachelor of Arts in laws in 1960 at the Univer ...
Fernando Ampuero
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* Luisa Kam Mont Luisa (Italian and Spanish), Luísa (Portuguese) or Louise (French) is a feminine given name; it is the feminine form of the given name Louis (Luis), the French form of the Frankish Chlodowig (German Ludwig), from the Germanic elements ''hlod ...
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