Peru’s first ‘visionary’ editor dies
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts.
Doris Gibson, who 58 years ago founded Peru’s leading news magazine Caretas (linked here on La Plaza’s side bar), has died at the age of 98.
Her strength of character and determination helped the magazine withstand military dictatorships and repressive governments, writes Dan Collyns for the BBC.
She was born in Lima, by accident, in 1910. In those days, people traveled by boat between the capital and Arequipa, Peru’s upmarket second city nestled in the Andes to the south. Her mother was aboard ship and about to head home to Arequipa when her waters broke and she had to go ashore to give birth. She was the daughter of Percy Gibson, a poet who rebelled from his wealthy merchant family of British descent to live a literary life. Doris’ younger sister Charo says he never worked a day in his life and she and her many sisters grew up in genteel poverty.
Click here to read more of the BBC’s report on Doris Gibson.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City