Héctor Aguilar Camín (born July 9, 1946) is a
Mexican writer, journalist, and historian, director of Nexos magazine. Nexos was fined and banned for two years (2020-2022) from contracts with the Mexican Government (which had provided the magazine's funds) for illicit financing.[1] This decision was later reversed by the Tribunal Federal de Justicia Administrativa (TFJA).[2]
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".[3] He is remarried to
Ángeles Mastretta and has three sons.
Pensando pendientes y otras historias conversadas (2012, short stories)
ISBN9786070710681
Una agenda para México 2012 (2012, nonfiction) with Jorge G. Castaneda
ISBN978-6071115546
La modernidad fugitiva (Esta edición incluye dos libros clave del autor: Después del milagro, publicado en 1988, y La ceniza y la semilla, publicado en el año 2000. Añade un ensayo sobre la experiencia de los últimos años: Los límites de la democracia mexicana, 2000-2012)
ISBN978-6070711503
Regreso al futuro (2011, essays) with Jorge G. Castaneda
ISBN9786071108517
Informe Jalisco: Más allá de la guerra de las drogas (2010, nonfiction by various authors including Aguilar Camín)
ISBN9786077638766
Un futuro para México (2010, essays) with Jorge G. Castaneda
ISBN9786071104007
La frontera nómada, Sonora y la Revolucion Mexicana (history, first edition, Siglo XXI, 1977, second edition 1997, Cal y Arena); 1985
ISBN9789682906879; 2010
ISBN978-6077638230
En torno de la cultura nacional, coautor; Instituto Nacional Indigenista, México, 1976