 From 1949 to 1953 , Buendía worked for La Nación and met the magazine 's secretary Dolores Abalos Lebrija , whom he married on 19 January 1955 . Though he first wrote for La Nación , his professional journalistic career began at the newspaper La Prensa in 1953 . He worked as an editor , crime reporter , and political columnist for the newspaper until he became the editor @-@ in @-@ chief in January 1960 . Around that time Buendía started his daily column Red Privada ( " Private Network " ) , where he wrote about the alleged collusion of organized crime in Mexico 's political system . In 1963 , he left to work at the newspaper El Día and wrote at the political column Para Control de Usted ( " For You to Control " ) under the penname " J.M. Tellezgirón " . From 1964 to 1965 , Buendía directed the weekly Crucero and wrote the column Concierto Político ( " Political Concert " ) under the penname " D. I. Ogenes " . On 1 January 1971 , he was appointed as the head of the Press and Public Relations of Mexico City alongside Alfonso Martínez Domínguez . However , Buendía turned down the position in June following the massacre of student demonstrators . A year later , Buendía worked as an advisor to Guillermo Martínez Domínguez , the former head of Nacional Financiera , a bank of Mexico 's Secretariat of Finance and Public Credit ( SHCP ) . In Nacional Financiera , Buendía befriended Gerardo Bueno Zirón , who shortly after being appointed as director of the National Council of Science and Technology ( CONACYT ) offered him a position as director of the institution 's Press and Public Relations department in 1973 . That year , Henrique González Casanova , the former head of the Political Science department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( UNAM ) , invited Buendía to work as a part @-@ time professor , a job that the journalist held until his death in 1984 . 
