The afternoon of this December 24through social networks was announced death of the editor and former director of Grupo Planeta México (1997-2006), Jesus Anaya Rosique to the 78 years.
The Brigada para Leer en Libertad organization mourned the sensitive death through its X account (@BRIGADACULTURAL):
“All members of the brigade regret the sensitive death of Jesús Anaya. We send a huge hug to his family and present our deepest condolences. May the earth be a light companion to you, have a good trip and thank you for everything.”
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Who was Jesús Anaya Rosique?
The essayist and writer, born in April 1946 in the Mexico Cityhe worked at the newspaper El Día under the tutelage of the author Miguel Donoso Pareja, a few years before joining the Era and Siglo XXI publishing houses as editor.
Showing his first signs of a militant, when he was a Philosophy student at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM, he participated in the 1966 strike, two years before the Tlatelolco massacre. In 1968, in addition to joining a clandestine group as a result of what happened on October 2, he joined the now defunct Mexican News Agency, Amex.
A year later, thanks to his freneticism and his political activity, he asked to travel to Ecuador, some time later he wanted to get to Miami and ended up in Havana. In this last place, after being under surveillance by the regime, he traveled first to Prague and later to Paris, only to later, after an intermittent stay with radical groups of the Italian left and a trip through the West Bank, he returned to Mexico, of course surreptitiously, in 1971.
The following year, following the course of the arrest by the military and a confinement in Lecumberri and a release achieved by the kidnapping carried out by the People’s Armed Revolutionary Front, he traveled again to Havana along with other political prisoners.
His pilgrimage, always subject to his concern and his ideology, allowed him to travel through various parts of Europe until he found Italy, where he not only recovered that job lost due to his activism, but also obtained Italian nationality and knew how to play in favor of the games. diplomats to visit Mexico legally a couple of times before returning permanently.
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More recently, he was director of Grupo Planeta México between the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. Subsequently, according to records, since 2006 he was a professor and researcher at the Academy of Literary Creation of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and since 2009 he taught at the Master’s Degree in Design and Editorial Production at the Autonomous Metropolitan University ( UAM) Xochimilco, which was founded by Ciepel graduates.
In recent years, before the pandemic, Jesus Anaya Rosique He worked at the Center for Innovation and Professional Training for the Publishing Industry, “Editamos”, created by CANIEM.
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