La Opinon 1926 - 1976

Don Ignacio E. Lozano
Nace:
Marin , Nuevo Leon
1886

Colabora
" El Pueblo Libre "

La Prensa 1913
Calle Dolorosa
Calle Santa Rosa
Leonides Gonzalez
La Opinion 16 de septiembre 1926
Esposa Alicia B. Lozano
Matrimonio 22 de septiembre 1922
Nace su hijo enero 1927
Primeros Empleados
Jesus de la Garza
Victor Esparza

Los sigue tiempo despues
Nemesio Garcia Naranjo
Adolfo Fuentes




Administradores

Arturo Cantu
Luis Diaz Flores
Jose Bravo
Horacio Martinez

Departamento de Anuncios

Francisco Olivares
Jesus Icaza
Enrique Villegas
Henry Lee
Jose A. Valle

Departamento de Circulacion

Jose Angel Aguilar
Leopoldo Paulin

Jefe de Taller

Vicente Vergara
Francisco Garcia
Jesus Garcia
Antonio Laguna
Andres Laguna

Empleados

Santos Aldama
Roberto Aldama
Gloria Alvarez
Refugio Arce
NIcolas Avila
Teresa Arteaga
Jesus Borunda
Alberto Basulto
Deborah Barrientos
Margarita Benitez
Gloria Beltran
Fulgencio Corral
Othon Castillo
Jose Crespo
Enrique Castillo
Jesus Cano
Octavio Costa
Armando Campero
Francisco Covarrubias
Domingo Davalos
Armando del Moral
Jesus Delgado
Rafael de la Vega
Arturo Dueñas
Raul Espinosa
Gilberto Flores
Mercedes F. Flores
Alberto Gamiochipi
Jose B. Garduño
Rodolfo Garcia
Silvio Garcia
Leoncio Garcia
Alberto Garcia
Armando Guerra
Salvador Gomez
Cruz Gomez
Domingo Gutierrez
Jean B. Garner
Aurelio Garcia II
Gabriel Hernandez
Salvador Hernandez
Robert M. Hennesy
Enrique Ibarra
Rafael Ibarra
Francisco Juaristi
Rosita Jordan
Oldemar Hidalgo
Victor Jacques
Jose Angel Loyo
Antonio Laguna Jr.
Julio Laguna
Andres Laguna Jr.
Agapito Lopez
Laura Lopez
Javier Lopez
Francisco Lozoya
Enrique Mestre
Salvador Madrigal
Antonio L. Mendez
Oscar Medrano
Ricardo Manzo
Xavier Martinez
Jacinto Mattos
Roberto Morales
Ruben Morales
Agustin Morales
Marco Augusto Montes
Maria L. Mosqueda
Gabriel Navarro
Leonor Narvaez de Loxsom
Roberto Nava
Evangelina Narvaez
Rosalinda Narvaez
Domingo Ortega
Roberto Ocariz
Enrique Peña
Adolfo Portillo
Alejandro Pollades
Fidel Padilla
Esthela Prow
David R. Paulin
Alberto Rodriguez
Jose Rosales
Leopoldo Ramirez
Felipe Reyes
Gloria Reta
Hector Spinola
Adrian Sarabia
Veronica Rosas
Jose Rosales
Jesus R. Santana
Carmen Santana
John F. Sotuwie
Jonathan Suarez
Yolanda E. Salazar
Elena Maria Torres
Rodolfo Trujillo
Anonio Ugalde
Jose C. Valades
Jose Ruis Veliz
Manuel R. Vidal
Vicente Vergara Jr.
Roberto Vallejo
Carlos Villa
Jaime Villa
Antonio Zozaya
Arturo B. Zozoya


LOZANO, IGNACIO E. (1886-1953). Ignacio E. Lozano, editor of Spanish-language newspapers,qv was born in 1886 in Marín, Nuevo León, Mexico. He moved to Texas in 1908, at a time when thousands of Mexicans were crossing the border into the United States. Subsequently, the Mexican Revolutionqv prompted an even larger exodus. In San Antonio Lozano established a Spanish-language bookstore. He also worked with publisher and political exile Adolfo D. Salinas on two Spanish-language periodicals, La Revista Mensual and El Noticiero. Later, Lozano briefly managed and edited the Spanish-language daily El Imparcial de Texas, owned by Francisco A. Chapa.qv

In 1913 Lozano launched La Prensa, a Spanish-language periodical. At the time there were some 400 such periodicals in the United States. La Prensa's readership included political refugees of all classes from Mexico. The newspaper primarily reported on political developments in Mexico and accused the administration of President Plutarco E. Calles of excesses. Consequently, the paper was often censored in Mexico. Lozano had intended to return to Mexico to aid in the transformation of that country, but stayed to make La Prensa an outstanding Spanish-language daily. By 1926 the newspaper was attracting such writers as José Vasconcelos and Nemesio García Naranjo and employed direct correspondents in Paris, Mexico City, and Washington. In April 1926 Lozano started another successful Spanish-language daily in Los Angeles, La Opinión. He eventually moved to California. Both Lozano newspapers criticized Mexican policies and atrocities during the 1920s and 1930s. Copies of the two periodicals circulated surreptitiously, and Lozano's editorials were reprinted by his publishing house, Casa Editorial Lozano.

In March 1928 the Congress of the Latin Press, meeting in Havana, Cuba, recognized Lozano for his efforts in opposing Calles. He was also honored for his civic accomplishments by the political and civic leaders of San Antonio in February 1953, the fortieth anniversary of La Prensa. On September 21, 1953, he died of cancer. His widow, Alicia E. Lozano, and his longtime business manager, Leonides Gonzales, continued publishing La Prensa for ten years. Its circulation declined as Spanish-language readership dwindled. The last issue of La Prensa (by then a bilingual tabloid) was printed on January 31, 1963. La Opinión continued to serve the Spanish-speaking populace of California and the Southwest.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lupe Castillo and Hermino Rios, "Toward a True Chicano Bibliography: Mexican American Newspapers, 1848-1942," El Grito 3 (Summer 1970). Onofre di Stefano, "`Venimos a luchar': A Brief History of La Prensa's Founding," Aztlán 16 (1985). Richard Amado García, The Making of the Mexican-American Mind, San Antonio, Texas, 1929-1941 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of California at Irvine, 1980). La Prensa (San Antonio), February 13, 1938. San Antonio Express, September 23, 1953.

Nora E. Riós McMillan