Overview
- Juan Pablo Becerra-Acosta offered to resign Monday after a viral front-page misspelling on a Jaime Sabines centenary issue.
- He later said he would remain in the post after speaking with UNAM’s communications chief, Mauricio López V.
- He took full blame for changing the line to “desollan” instead of the correct “desuellan” while reworking the text in uppercase, saying the fault was his, not the university’s.
- The mistake was first flagged on X by journalist Leticia Robles with a Real Academia Española citation, which drove a wider debate over editorial review in institutional media.
- Becerra-Acosta, who has led Gaceta UNAM since 2021, pledged to strengthen editing processes at the university’s official news organ as early reports noted no immediate institutional statement.