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
massacre of student demonstrators
Corpus Christi massacre
Manuel Buendía