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Machetearte
Description
- Independant mexican daily newspaper publishing news and comics
- Subtitle : “Satirical and struggle newspaper” (“Periódico satírico y de combate”)
- Organ edited by the political-cultural organization CLETA (OPC-CLETA)
Location
- Mexico city, Mexico See the AMGP’s Map
Language(s)
- Spanish
Publications
- Website : http://www.machetearte.com/
Diffusion
- Between 5000 and 6000 issues of the newspaper is sold two or three times a week
- It is distributed in the streets and the metro of Mexico city through to a network of paper boys (around 30).
Legal status
- The newspaper is not officially registred at the Secretaría de Gobernación, but benefits from rights of author
Financing / Donours-Funders
- The newspaper is auto-financed. One newspaper costs 55 centavos : the distributors buys a number of them, and try to sell them for a good price. They're asking for a cooperation, because the newspaper can not legally be sold in the metro. They can earn a little money through this process
- From time to time, it publishes annoucements from other organizations belonging to the OPC-CLETA's networks, and is paid for it
Internal organization
- Coordinators of the electronic edition:
- Diseño: Trabajo Diseño Gráfico OPC-CLETA
- Mantenimiento de sitio: Maruca González
- Coordinators of the print edition:
- José Alfredo Jiménez
- Sirahuen Millán
- Lila Sarai
- Enrique Cisneros
Contacts
- Address :
- Email :
redaccion@machetearte.com
tallergrafico@machetearte.com
- Tel. :
- Fax:
History
- February 19, 2006: participation to a meeting of alternative media in Zacatelco, Tlaxcala, during the Other Campain organized by the Zapatist movement
- October 27, 2005: issue #1000
- October 3, 2001: Machetearte starts to be published on a daily basis
- 1999-2000: Machetearte participate to the student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It reaches 30.000 issues.
- January 1999: Machetearte Launched
Links with other alternative media
- The OPC-CLETA also produces the newspaper Machete, the radio program CLETA-Hertz, the on-line news agency APIA (Agencia Periódistica de información Alternativa)