Caretas
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Caretas is a weekly newsmagazine published in Lima, Peru renowned for its investigative journalism. It was founded in October 1950 by Doris Gibson and her son Enrique Zileri, who has remained the magazine's director of publication.
After several years of monthly publication, Caretas began to be published semi-monthly, and, since 1979, weekly. A new edition currently appears every Thursday.
Caretas focuses on Peruvian-related topics, ranging from historic coups (it was founded during Odría's regime), corruption scandals, presidential elections, crimes of passion, sports, to wars and terrorism. Since the mid-1980s, Caretas has imitated Time Magazine by naming a Man of the Year in the year-end issue of the magazine.
The publication's first all-color cover featured Peruvian model Gladys Zender, who became Latin America's first beauty pageant contestant to win the Miss Universe title in 1957.
Former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori once called Caretas "a rock in the shoe".[citation needed]
