[2] The founders were a group of Intellectuals headed by Héctor Aguilar Camín.

[2] Since the establishment of the magazine a number of leading intellectuals among its writers and contributors, such as José Woldenberg and Wendy Guerra have edited it.

[4] The magazine has socialist political views,[4] and is a representative of the left-wing cultural and literary establishments in the country.

[5] It supported militant actions to offer social justice and equality to the poor in the 1980s.

[2] However, since the leftist government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador took office in 2018 in Mexico, the director of Nexos, Hector Aguilar Camín, called for a citizen alliance against López Obrador.