Héctor Aguilar Camín
![Héctor Aguilar Camín in 2012.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/H%C3%A9ctor_Aguilar_Cam%C3%ADn_2012_%28cropped%29.jpg)
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
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