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El Economista

Mexican business/financial press, pro-market center

Owned byOwned by Nacer Global (Grupo Nacer), the conglomerate of brothers Jorge and Alfonso Nacer Gobera, who also own the ICEL university group. The publisher is El Economista Grupo Editorial, S.A. de C.V.
FundingMainly commercial: print and digital advertising, subscriptions and events, plus the parent group's backing. It also gets revenue from the Expansión magazines and websites it bought. No state ownership has been found. Exact finances are not public.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

El Economista was founded in Mexico City on December 5, 1988, by journalists Luis Enrique Mercado and Martín Casillas de Alba. Mercado was general director until 2008. It is known for being printed on salmon-orange paper, in the style of financial dailies. In late 2008 and early 2009 the paper was sold for a reported US$23 million to Jorge and Alfonso Nacer Gobera, owners of Universidad ICEL, and Jorge Nacer became chair of its board. In 2015 its owner bought Grupo Editorial Expansión from Time Inc. for a reported US$65 million, adding 17 magazines and 11 websites. The paper covers the economy, finance, business, politics and public policy, with a generally market-friendly, pro-business outlook that is not tied to a party. Its news reports often use official and industry sources. Its coverage of Trump's second term is mostly about economic effects on Mexico, such as tariffs, trade talks and investment. I did not find a major documented editorial controversy, and I could not review a full sample of recent coverage, so the stance assessment is approximate. Note: a separate Spanish outlet, elEconomista.es (Editorial Ecoprensa, founded 2006), shares the name but is unrelated.

Sources

  1. El Economista (Mexico) – Wikipedia
  2. El Economista (México) – Wikipedia (es)
  3. Se vendió en US$ 23 millones el diario El Economista – Convergencia Latina
  4. El dueño de 'El Economista' adquiere Grupo Editorial Expansión por 65 millones de dólares – economiahoy.mx
  5. El Economista (Spain) – Wikipedia

Profile compiled 2026-10-27; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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