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. This decision was later reversed by the Tribunal Federal de Justicia Administrativa (TFJA). 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.

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