It was founded by Juan Ignacio María de Castorena Ursúa y Goyeneche, a journalist, Catholic priest, and later Bishop of Yucatan.

[1][2][3][4][5][6] He is considered the first journalist in Latin America for having created the periodical in Mexico City, whose first issue was published on January 1, 1722.

[7] He was a friend of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, editing some of her works and defending her right to cultivate writing literature.

It was framed within the cultural and educational aims of the Bourbon dynasty, that is, it was intended to spread European ideas and customs among readers.

This consisted of four pages per issue[citation needed], and its editor was Juan Francisco Sahagún y Arévalo Ladrón de Guevara.