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Héctor Aguilar Camín

Héctor Aguilar Camín (born July 9, 1946) is a Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of ''Nexos'' magazine.

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.

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". He is remarried to Ángeles Mastretta and has three sons. Provided by Wikipedia