Columbia International Affairs Online: Working Papers

CIAO DATE: 06/2008

Análisis de la ideología empresarial regiomontana. Un acercamiento a partir del periódico El Norte

Jesús David Pérez Esparza, Cintia Smith Pussetto, Nancy Janett García Vázquez

February 2008

CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política

Abstract

Monterrey, capital city of Nuevo León, has distinguished itself for an outstanding peripherical industrialization process that started at the end of the nineteenth century and achieved its consolidation during the twentieth. Monterrey is an unique object of study in the extent that it links the industrial structures with the development of a conservative local bourgeoisie, which has showed resistance toward the centralizing trends of the Mexican State. This paper presents the results of a content analysis of the city’s most important newspaper, El Norte, in order to determine its role as a broadcaster and reinforcer of the local bussiness ideology.