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12-575: The newspaper's headquarters are located at Avenida Bucareli 1 in Colonia Juárez, Mexico City , at the intersection between that avenue and Paseo de la Reforma , which is known as Esquina de la Información (the "Information Corner" or "News Corner" in Spanish), since the headquarters of El Universal are also within this area. The historic building of its headquarters is located between Paseo de la Reforma 18 and Avenida Bucareli 17, next to

24-517: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Avenida Bucareli Avenida Bucareli , often referred to as "Bucareli Street", is a main avenue and eje vial (arterial road) in Mexico City . It divides the Historic center on the east from Colonia Juárez on the west. It is named after the viceroy of New Spain , Antonio María de Bucareli y Ursúa , who commissioned it. Built in

36-411: Is a large network of wide arterial roads with coordinated traffic signals. They are mainly directed in one-way with a single lane going in the opposite direction used exclusively by public transportation. The network was a project of Mexico City mayor Carlos Hank González and the first part of the network, after extensive construction and demolition of buildings and removal of trees, opened in 1979. With

48-523: Is today), and then they moved to Nuevo México street (today known as Artículo 123 street). All of these locations are within Cuauhtémoc borough , near the historic center of Mexico City . The historic building of its current headquarters began construction in 1922 and concluded in December 1924. The building was designed, at the behest of Alducin, by Italian architect Silvio Contri , the construction

60-496: The Mexican establishment in general, in a move spurred when President Luis Echeverría secretly incited a group of workers to take over the cooperative and install new leadership. The "Excélsior coup" instituted the new leadership that would be at the head of Excélsior until 2001. The outgoing editorial staff went on to found new publications, like Proceso , Vuelta and Unomásuno . In 2001, Regino Díaz Redondo, who had led

72-1451: The exception of the Eje Central , a south-to-north eje passing through the historic center of Mexico City , the ejes are numbered with cardinal directions, for example going north from the center: Eje 1 Norte, then Eje 2 Norte, and so forth. In addition to the Eje number and directional, the streets retain their individual names, with one eje thus consisting of multiple sequential individually named streets. (Mostly south-to-north with counterflow lane) (Mostly west-to-east with counterflow) (East-to-west with counterflow lane) (Mostly two-way) (Two-way and west-to-east) (Mostly east-to-west with counterflow lane, Metrobús line 6 (planned)) (Partially two-way) (Two-way) (West-to-east with counterflow lane) Juan Escutia (From Circuito Interior José Vasconselos to Av. Tamaulipas) (East-to-west with counterflow lane) (West-to-east artery with counterflow lane and Metrobús line 2) (East-to-west with reversible lane) (West-to-east with reversible lane(s)) (mostly east-to-west with two-way on Zapata) Municipio Libre' (From Av. Universidad to Circuito Interior Rio Churubusco) (West-to-east and two-way) (Fragmented two-way) (East-to-west artery and two-way) (Mostly north-to-south) (Mostly south-to-north) (Two-way, Metrobús line 5 planned) Eje 3 Oriente forms part of

84-454: The late 18th century and called Paseo Nuevo, it was once a wide boulevard lined with more than 1000 ash trees . In the 19th century the walking paths on either side were built upon and the avenue acquired its current width. It originally had three plazas, each with a fountain. Only one fountain survives, though it was moved to Plaza Loreto. Eje vial The system of ejes viales (singular: eje vial , lit. "road axis") in Mexico City

96-454: The modern building. Originating from the weekly journal Revista de revistas , Excélsior was founded by Rafael Alducin and first published in Mexico City on March 18, 1917. Before choosing its current location, the headquarters were initially set at the corner between the streets of Colón and Rosales (this corner no longer exists, it was located around the area where the Torre del Caballito

108-500: The newspaper contributed to a successful 30-year reign, in which the newspaper would become politically and economically stable. Beginning in 1968, the newspaper's editorial stance was of a relatively liberal bent, under the editorship of Julio Scherer García . After Scherer left the newspaper in 1976, the editorial stance became more overtly supportive of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and

120-516: The paper since 1976, was ousted, leaving in his wake a disorganized cooperative and an indebted newspaper. The end of the PRI's hold on Mexican politics brought with it a falling out of favor for the publication. In January 2006, the newspaper was sold to Grupo Imagen , the owners of radio and TV interests in Mexico City, headed by Olegario Vázquez Raña . The cooperative voted 591–7 to authorize

132-473: The sale of Excélsior . The sale led to the dissolution of the cooperative and the relaunch of the newspaper on March 18, 2006. The publication of its weekly journal Revista de revistas ended. Its main writers also contribute to Imagen radio and Cadena Tres; Excélsior TV , a cable news channel also available over the air in Mexico City, launched in September 2013. This Mexican newspaper–related article

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144-555: Was directed by Carlos Borgatt, and engineers Miguel Rebolledo and Manuel Marroquín y Rivera would also participate. The building has two distinct looking façades facing each avenue (Reforma and Bucareli), despite that both belong to a single building. In April 1924, Alducin died at the age of 35, and his family led the newspaper into difficult times. Ultimately, it was reconstituted as a worker-owned cooperative in 1932, with one-time accountant Gilberto Figueroa named general manager. His ability to manage finances and broker compromise within

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