About

Olivier Acuña

Mexico Tribune is an attempt to deliver fresh and non-biased Mexico news to foreigners and English speaking people in Mexico and around the world. The page is edited by Olivier Acuña, who is a journalist since 1984.

Olivier began his career as a journalist in a Mexico City newspaper called El Sol de México, where he did outstanding coverage of the devastating earthquake of September 1985 that killed at least 25,000 people.

He was then invited to work for United Press International as a correspondent with tasks that included translating, writing, copywriting and editing. It was there that he began to find a keen interest in reporting on crime and drugtrafficking. He was frequently sent to the northwestern state of Sinaloa, where bombings and shootouts between drug cartels were increasing to the rate that experts and media called this situation the “Colombianization”.

Olivier wrote many stories that included interviews with drugtraffickers, police officials and people being affected by the violence and the drugs that were changing the way of life in a state known to be the cradle of druglords and cartels.

Influential newspaper El Norte de Monterrey asked Olivier to become their first correspondent in all of the northwestern region of Mexico, covering six states. Soon, Olivier proved to the newspaper directives that it was benecitial and necessary to have a journalist in each state.

El Norte then invited Olivier to go to Mexico to form part of the founding team of their new newspaper Reforma, which would become one of the country´s most important news publication. In 1995, Olivier moved on to become Assistant Managing Editor of the Mexico City The Times.

He has also worked for Mexican television network Televisa and today he is doing a MA in International Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University in the UK: