Eduardo Martínez Celis

• Name — Eduardo Martínez Celis • Born — 29 October 1890 • Birthplace — Zamora de Hidalgo, Mexico • Died — 5 November 1943 • Place of death — Monterrey, Mexico • Occupation — Journalist • Spouse — Josefina López García • Children — 6

• Illustration — Eduardo Martínez Celis with his father, Lt. Col. Domingo Martínez Barrón. Matamoros, Tamaulipas - January 26, 1909. His parents were Josefa Celis Arceo, a native of Jiquilpan, Michoacán, and Lt. Col. Domingo Martínez Barrón, a native of Santiago de Querétaro—a veteran of the War of Reform, French Intervention and Second Mexican Empire. Due to his father’s military duties, the Martínez-Celis family moved from Zamora, Michoacán to Morelia, Michoacán and, later on, to Guadalajara, Jalisco, where Eduardo began his studies. In 1901 the family took up residence in Monterrey, Nuevo León, where he completed his higher education at the Colegio Civil. Years later, when this school became the Escuela de Bachilleres, he became a professor of Literature and History of Literature at said institution.

Rafael "Rip Rip" Martínez began him on his journalistic career. In 1909, Martínez Celis was a reporter for the newspaper El Renacimiento; he continued with directive positions in El Noticiero (1911), El Combate (1912) and Nueva Patria—all in Monterrey. Following this period, he lived in Mexico City from 1914 to 1916, where he collaborated in El Heraldo, El Demócrata and El Pueblo, the latter owned by Heriberto Frías. Upon returning to Monterrey, he joined El Progreso as editor-in-chief from 1917 to 1918. On January 31, 1919 he co-founded El Porvenir alongside Jesús Cantú Leal, Ricardo Arenales and Federico Gómez, occupying the newly-founded newspaper's chief editorial position during the next 17 years. Afterwards, he would assume the direction of El Tiempo, when this newspaper was founded in August 1936.

Martínez Celis took an active interest in politics, presiding as vice-president of the Partido Constitucional Progresista (Progressive Constitutionalist Party) of Nuevo León, which nominated Francisco I. Madero and José María Pino Suárez as its candidates for president and vice-president of Mexico in October 1911. Martínez Celis was also director of El Combate, the semi-official newspaper of the Partido Constitucional Progresista. From 1920 to 1922, he occupied the office of congressman in the Nuevo León Legislature representing the Partido Constitucional Independiente (Independent Constitutionalist Party); however, his political activities were overshadowed by his prominent journalistic career. Martínez Celis died due to cardiac arrest on November 5, 1943 in Monterrey.

Poetry: • Rima íntima - (1933) Essays: • Un tópico cualquiera • El Cuarto Poder a través de los siglos. - Reseña histórica del periodismo en Nuevo León desde 1824 hasta 1936 - (1937) • El teatro en Monterrey a través de 75 años - (1941) Theater: • La rebelde - (1913) • Deuda de gloria - (1915) • El abismo - (1916) • El diablo romántico - (1932) • Mujeres de acción - (1933) • Los amigos del señor gobernador - (1934)