This article deals with the age of illustrated magazines in Mexico from 1937-60. The article depicts how the magazine industry went from being free from government interferences to being completely under the Mexican governments thumb, and eventually displaced altogether by the arrival of television in Mexico. The article is a guide, taking us from the first real free Mexican Magazine Rotofoto, which was truly free until it was shut down, to "the Mexican governments turn to the right in 1940", in which the press was "at the service of the Senor Presidente, whoever and however the Senor Presidente was".

The article ends in a positive way however, a new controversial magazine is published called Solo los humildes van al infierno (Only the poor go to hell) which isn't under much government interference, and which speaks out against police brutality and injustice, of how the rich could buy their way out of jail and how corrupt things really were. It was a turning point for photo journalism in Mexico's magazine industry, and eventually led to independent journalism in Mexico.

The magazines were also very patriarchic. The message they often sent was that "men should be important" and "women should marry important men". The propaganda which was dished out during the 1951 miner strike proves just how corrupt the press at the time was. The miners

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Approximate Word count = 502
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)