Caesar Hildebrandt

César Augusto Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño (Lima, August 7, 1948) is a Peruvian journalist. He is one of the influential journalists in the country and brother of the journalist and linguist Martha Hildebrandt.

Early years

Son of Jorge Hildebrandt Dávila and Rosa Pérez-Treviño Olivos. He is the half-brother of the linguist Martha Hildebrandt. He has German ancestry through his father's side.

He studied the last three years of high school at the Leoncio Prado Military School. He was a student of General Studies of Letters (two years) at the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal, from 1964 to 1968. However, he began in journalism in the newspaper Expreso , through some articles about the surrealist Julio Cortazar.

Career

César Hildebrandt began working as an interviewer in the national weekly newspaper Caretas and as a columnist in various media outlets. One of them was Conexiones, a program that sought to decentralize information and communicate with the audience from other regions of the country. Later, he has been director of different magazines and publications, such as the foundation of the weekly Yes, the weekly Visión Peruana (1985) and the newspaper Liberación, known for its frontal opposition to Alberto Fujimori's regime.

In December 1998, he resigned during a live broadcast of his program Enlace global, on Red Global (currently Global Televisión), after a telephone argument with the channel's then president, Genaro Delgado. Parker. During the government of Alberto Fujimori, constant complaints of serious acts of corruption made him, allegedly, the target of a plan to assassinate him (Plan Bermudas). The one that led him into self-exile in Spain for some years, where he worked in different media outlets.

In 2001 he joined Latina Televisión to present Hastahere nomás, in the same prime time slot as Magaly TeVe. However, this name change with La boca del lobo, which gained controversy for the broadcast of a telephone communication from Alejandro Toledo, and later moved to the midnight slot with Hoy con Hildebrandt. At the beginning of 2006 and after two and a half years of directing said political television program, the directors of the television channel terminated his contract. According to the journalist, he refused to participate in a campaign against Ollanta Humala supposedly supported by Latina Televisión, in which he showed behavior towards his rival Lourdes Flores Nano.

In October 2006, in his opinion column in the newspaper La Primera, Hildebrandt revealed that the then president, Alan García, had a son born out of his marriage. Moments later, the newspaper removed him from the list of columnists.

For some time, he maintained a program through Radio San Borja, from 9:00 to 10:30; His last broadcast was on Friday, July 4, 2008. The reason he gave for his retirement was his lack of sponsors.

On August 29, 2008, he announced his return to television via RBC Television. The Manger Dog aired from Sunday, September 14, 2008 to Sunday, June 14, 2009, from 9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., competing with El sniper, by Jaime Bayly (Frecuencia Latina), and Día D, by Pamela Vértiz (ATV).

From July 2009 until mid-September of the same year, he took on a new program of the same type as The Dog in the Manger, called Hildebrandt at 10. However, Hildebrandt surprisingly terminated the contract because he considered the interference that the owner of RBC Television, Ricardo Belmont, intended to initiate intolerable.

His tense relationship with his agnatic sister, the former congresswoman and philologist, Martha Hildebrandt, is notorious.

Hildebrandt in his Thirteen

On Friday, April 23, 2010, he made his return to the written press when the first issue of his weekly Hildebrandt en sus Trece appeared, a publication that circulates to this day. It is published on Friday of each week and its price was S/.5.00, but, in January 2021, it underwent a readjustment, so its new price is now S/6.00. Regarding the print run, it is no longer in circulation for the most part three days after publication. On May 2, 2014, its 200th edition went on sale, which also coincides with the fourth anniversary of the aforementioned publication.

This weekly has had an impact on uncovered cases, such as the possible intervention of supreme prosecutors in the Áncash case or the reluctance to arrest Martín Belaunde Lossio. The authenticity of his data allows him to enjoy reception across a wide ideological spectrum, such is the case of Fernando Rospigliosi.

The publication continued with political complaints. No. 231 of his newsletter published, exclusively, that "three witnesses confirm that the nation's prosecutor, Carlos Ramos Heredia, visited Rodolfo Orellana with some frequency in his office on Guardia Civil Avenue. And now? » In 2023 he carried out investigations into the government of Dina Boluarte, whose journalists were targeted by the ruling party with intimidation from the police.

In 2022 he premiered his podcast, which is broadcast live only to his online subscribers.

Influence and recognitions

In 1985 he competed on the list of the most powerful in national journalism according to the El Poder en el Perú surveys. Since 1988 he remained for several years as the most influential journalist. According to the magazine he publishes, Debate, "[...] to the strength of television, Hildebrandt adds his controversial personal style, which explains his privileged position in this area of the survey." By 2022, he remained the most powerful journalist in the media. country, surpassing other generations of rival newspapers that were also influential such as Juan Arévalo Miró Quesada (El Comercio) and Gustavo Mohme (La República).

Hildebrandt is a detractor of Fujimorism, showing that "it is a mafia that persecutes us like a recurring disease." In 1996 he received the award from the National Coordinator of Human Rights, which recognized him with the Journalism and Human Rights award. The following year, in 1997, the magazine Caretas included him in the Resistance Awards. In 2000, the journalist obtained the Candle of Hope recognition from the Peruvian chapter of Amnesty International, which he shared with Enrique Zileri, Zenaida Solís and Gustavo Mohme.

TV shows

• Testimony (1980-1981), América Televisión.
• Good morning, Peru (comentarist, 1981-1982), Panamericana Televisión.
• Vision (1983-1984), América Televisión.
• Connections (1984), Panamericana Televisión.
• Meeting (1985-1986), Latina Televisión.
• In person (1987), RBC Televisión.
• In person (1988-July 1991), América Televisión.
• In plural (1994), Monitor (extinct cable channel).
• Time 25 (1995), ATV.
• The key (1996), Global Television.
• In person (1996-December 1997), Uranio 15 (extinct open signal channel, today La Tele).
• Global link (1998, January 2001-April 2001), Global Television.
• Up here no more (July 2001-December 2001), Latina Television.
• At 11 with Hildebrandt (March 2002-June 2003), América Televisión.
• In the mouth of the wolf (June 2003-December 2004), Latina Television.
• Today with Hildebrandt (January 2005-January 2006), Latina Televisión.
• The Hortean Dog (August 2008-June 2009), RBC Television.
• Hildebrandt at 10 (July 2009-September 2009), RBC Television.

Later public appearances

• United by history (interviewed, 2010), History.
• The function of the word (interviewed, 2015), TV Peru.

Published works

• Memory of the abyss (1994). Editorial Jaime Campodónico. ISBN 9972729052.
• Change of words (second edition, corrected and increased, 2008). New Earth Editors, Lima. ISBN 978-603-45133-9-6.
• A stone in the shoe (2011). New Earth Editors.
• In his thirteenth (2018). Editorial Debate. ISBN 9786124272356.
• Confessions of an inquisitor (2021). Editorial Debate.