Correo Semanal is like a “literary and artistic sounding board”.

Weekly Mail has become a loyal friend to its readers. It acquired its defined profile as a cultural complement in the early 1990s under the leadership of philosopher and journalist Juan Andrés Cardozo.

“When I joined Ultima Hora, I focused on arts and culture with a small team of editors responsible for writing notes and interviews and communicating with staff who can write regularly,” remembers Antonio V. Pecci, who part of the team, himself. about thirty years.

Andrés Colmán, Sergio Cáceres Mercado and Blas Brítez de Mario Rubén Álvarez were now part of Correo, with key collaborations including editor Brigitte Colmán and illustrator Enzo Pertile.

For example, the fonts of Roa Bastos, Olga Blinder, Elvio Romero, José-Luís Appleyard, Milda Rivarola, Marilyn Godoy, Edgar Valdes, Domingo Rivarola, Ticio Escobar, Bartomeu Melià and many other qualified companies were offered to the public.

“During my more than 28-year tenure with the newspaper, I had the privilege of being a CS member and have received a number of awards, such as the Santiago Leguizamón National Journalism Award for a series of research that has allowed me to publish for several years. Years under the title Stronism. As well as awards from the Writers’ Association and other institutions,’ says the journalist.

For Pecci, researcher and author of several books, the supplement has gained respect and popularity because it has become a sounding board for local literary and arts news, featuring interviews with writers and poets, prominent musicians, anthropologists and linguists.

Among them we can count Renée Ferrer, Rubén Bareiro Saguier, Berta Rojas, Carlos Villagra Marsal, Oscar Cardozo Ocampo, Jacobo Rauskin, Helio Vera. Also international personalities such as Mario Benedetti, Antonio Skármeta, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Luisa Valenzuela, John Williams, Laura Restrepo, Mempo Giardinelli, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Ernesto Cardenal, Amelia Nassi and Teresa Méndez-Faith and many other personalities. There was also news about book fairs such as the FIL in Buenos Aires. “These were the main topics of our website,” adds Pecci. All this has helped create an informed audience that finds in the supplement an open window to the cultural news of the country and the world.

“Finally, it is worth mentioning the clear democratic commitment made in consultation with the newspaper Ekin when there were coup attempts by figures like Oviedentum in the government. Because we understood that the basis of culture is freedom,” he recalls.

STAFF. Journalist Andrés Colmán published his first article in the Weekly Mail in March 1980, at the age of 19. It was a colorful account of the impending doom of the Guairá Falls.

Since then he has been an almost constant collaborator, mainly writing reports on social issues. “One of my notes, published on the central page of the Mail, Los desterados de la Salamanca, was awarded the 1985 Vladimir Herzog Prize for journalism and human rights in Brazil,” he says.

He took over as editor in 1988 and oversaw the addition during the fall of the dictatorship. “We have issued a special edition on the coup, which continues previously banned topics such as the disappearances, the massacre in the Caaguazú case or the attack on the Jejuí colony.”

Wochenpost has always been critical and open about social, political and cultural issues since its dictatorship.

CS has been recognized as one of the best cultural publications in Latin America and internationally. He has received awards from the French Higher School of Social and Political Studies and the University of Madrid in Spain.

“I am grateful to have been part of the best journalistic story in Paraguay and that many of my most memorable writings first saw the light of day on their pages,” he concludes.