Founded in 1985 by
Hugo Alfaro and other journalists that had started their careers at
Marcha under the influence of
Carlos Quijano. As Quijano had died in 1984 in exile, they decided to take a new name, and try to continue with the original idea: an independent leftist weekly newspaper. Its pages display the work of
Hugo Alfaro,
Mario Benedetti,
Oscar Bruschera,
Guillermo Chifflet,
Eduardo Galeano, Ernesto González Bermejo,
Carlos María Gutiérrez, Carlos Núñez, Héctor Rodríguez,
José Wainer,
Guillermo Waksman,
Coriún Aharonian and
Gabriel Peluffo. Together with
Búsqueda, it is considered one of the two most influential political weekly newspapers in
Uruguay. ==Bibliography==