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''Zeta'' is a Mexican magazine published every Friday in Tijuana by Choix Editores. ''Zeta'' is distributed primarily in Baja California, in the cities of Tijuana, Tecate, Rosarito, Ensenada, and Mexicali.〔 It was founded in 1980 by Jesús Blancornelas, known as "the spiritual godfather of modern Mexican journalism",〔 along with Héctor Félix Miranda and Francisco Ortiz Franco. The magazine regularly runs exposés on corruption in local and federal governments as well as on organized crime and drug trafficking, resulting in numerous threats and attacks against its staff. Félix was murdered in 1988 by bodyguards of politician Jorge Hank Rhon, while Ortiz was assassinated in 2004, apparently for his coverage of the Tijuana Cartel. Blancornelas was also ambushed by gunmen in 1997; though one of his bodyguards was killed, but Blancornelas managed to survive his wounds. Following Blancornelas's death of stomach cancer in 2006, Adela Navarro Bello became ''Zeta'' More than half of the journalists working for the ''Zeta'' report on sport events, entertainment, and art, but the front-page stories on the newspaper are about drug trafficking and political corruption.〔 Since its creation, the newspaper chronicled the rise and workings of the Tijuana Cartel, one of Mexico's oldest drug trafficking organizations.〔 == Early history == In 1977, Jesús Blancornelas founded the independent newspaper ''ABC''. The paper employed future ''Zeta'' co-founder Héctor Félix Miranda, then a columnist who wrote under "Félix el Gato" ("Felix the Cat") to criticize local politicians. These columns eventually angered Baja California's state government and Mexico's former President José López Portillo to the point that the government ordered Blancornelas to fire Miranda and banned its distribution.〔 When Blancornelas refused, a SWAT team was sent to take over the paper's offices on the pretext of settling a labor dispute.〔〔 Blancornelas escaped to the United States, resettling in San Diego, California. In 1980, Blancornelas re-surfaced with the weekly publication ''Zeta'', which he co-founded with Félix.〔 The magazine printed copies in the United States and then smuggled them across the border into Mexico. After some years, they reestablished themselves in Tijuana. Through the magazine, the pair continued their investigation into organized crime and corruption.〔 The magazine ran a cover story in 1985 about local police guarding a marijuana-filled warehouse; the story was the first to report on the future leaders of the Tijuana Cartel, the Arellano Félix brothers. After Blancornelas discovered that plainclothes police officers had bought all 20,000 copies of the issue, ''Zeta'' republished the issue under the headline "Censored!"〔 In 1987, the ''Zeta'' magazine lived an attack, when two men in a brown Toyota pick-up truck opened fire at the installations one morning.〔 〕 In 1994, ''Zeta'' published an investigation on the assassination of Luis Donaldo Colosio; despite the conspiracy theories about the case, the magazine concluded that the shooting had been the work of a single troubled individual.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Zeta (magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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