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269: 1071: 433: 623:, was surprised by gunmen, who shot "five bullets into his car ", but he escaped without injury. The Associated Press noted that at the time of the murder attempt Calderon had been working on an investigative series about "the scandalously luxurious life of military officers jailed for crimes including murder and crimes against humanity at Tolemaida army base." Although a great many local journalists in Colombia have been murdered over the last few decades, this was, according to the Associated Press, "the first attempt on the life of a 260: 66: 168: 25: 641:
won the Premio Rey de España two years in a row, in 2007 and 2008. The 2007 award acknowledged the magazine's 25 years of investigative journalism. In 2008, the magazine won the award for a series of articles that uncovered the strong ties between political leaders and illegal right-wing paramilitary
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The magazine's website has won several national and international awards, including the Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá, Premio Rey de España, and Premio de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa. It has twice been a finalist for the Premio Iberoamericano de Periodismo Cemex-Fnpi. In 2007, Semana.com
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was described as "one of the major and largest publications in the Americas" by Finanzas.com, which observed that its history had been "tied up with the most important events in Colombia" and that it had "recorded our country's most significant successes." Although there had been great changes in
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and has also taken on Colombian guerrilla and paramilitary groups. In May 2009, Semana opposed a possible second re-election of Uribe, arguing that "a third term ... would have serious institutional repercussions" and that keeping Uribe in power would only aggravate the "erosion of separation of
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The general director of the company that publishes it, Publicaciones Semana, is Elena Mesa Zuleta; Its previous directors were Mauricio Vargas (1983 – 1997), Isaac Lee (1997–2000), Alejandro Santos (2000 – 2020) and Vicky Dávila (2020 - present). The director of Semana.com is Armando Neira.
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is a cultural review. Each of these magazines has its own website: Dinero.com; Soho.com.co; Jetset.com.co; Revistaarcadia.com; Revistafucsia.com, and Blog.com.co. In addition, Publicaciones Semana runs the website Planb.com.co, a comprehensive online guide to entertainment and culture.
667:, which has won several international prizes and has more than a million readers, is considered required reading for Colombia's political, economic, and cultural elite. "In the history of journalism in Colombia," reads a profile of López by a Colombian writer, "there is a 'before 578:'s 1994 presidential campaign was partially funded with drug money, was the high point of the magazine's influence. Yet while the magazine covered Samper's activities with brutal honesty, López never fell out personally with Samper. Once he invited Samper and radio journalist 582:, a fierce Samper critic, to lunch in hopes of making peace between them. Samper told López "you have been very harsh ," and Sanchez injected that López had been harsh out of conviction, while he (Sanchez) had done it for money. 556:, the drug trafficking kingpin. In the 1980s, López was one of the two "big whistleblowers and critics" of drug trafficking. Since then, however, the magazine has become less exclusively political. 661:, and Semana.com all won prizes from the Círculo de Periodistas de Bogotá. Semana.com won for "Cerro Matoso: mina rica, pueblo pobre" ("Rich Mine, Poor People") published in August 2012. 1012: 375: 494: 646:
won the Premio de la Sociedad Interamericana de Prensa for Internet news coverage. The prize was awarded for "La muerte de Carlos Castaño." In the same year,
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On October 9th, 2020 Revista Semana withdrew the possibility of writing opinions at the end of each articles, canceling the possibility of feedback on them.
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powers that has taken place during these seven years." While acknowledging that "the popularity of the President ... is undeniable and probably deserved,"
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journalist in the magazine's 30 years and it sent shock waves through the news media and human rights communities because of Calderon's stature."
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developed into Publicaciones Semana, a magazine group which publishes several other major periodicals in Colombia and neighboring countries.
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groups. The awards jury praised the magazine's "tireless research" and described their work as "a moral call to Colombia and the world."
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Recalling the prestige that had been enjoyed by Lleras's magazine, López asked for, and was given, permission to use the same name.
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Felipe López Caballero, the person who restarted the magazine, took two earlier Colombian magazines as models. One was Camargo's
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won honorable mention in the category of human rights for "Torturas en el Ejército" and was a finalist in the opinion category.
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and also provides exclusive coverage of political and social developments. It is the second most visited website in Colombia.
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On Thursdays and Fridays, the TV channel Cable Noticias runs a current-events program called
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The first issue came out on 12 May 1982. Its cover story was about terrorism.
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covers celebrity news; Semana Jr. is for children; Blog is for teenagers; and
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between 2000 and 2020. Vicky Dávila is its director since November 10, 2020.
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Colombia, the magazine's principles had "not changed in these thirty years."
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concluded that a third term for Uribe would, on the whole, be inadvisable.
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In May 2013, Ricardo Calderon, the prize-winning investigative editor of
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The website Semana.com offers all the contents of the magazine
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is Colombia's major economics and business magazine;
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31 July 2010 front cover of issue 1474 of Semana magazine, featuring Expresident Álvaro Uribe Vélez with the header "The Judgement of History: Álvaro Uribe leaves a Grandee. Only time will tell if he will be remembered as such."
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