LIMA, Peru (AP) — Enrique Zileri, who as longtime director of Peru’s leading newsmagazine defied despotism and battled corruption with stubborn independence, died Monday at age 83.

Under Zileri, Caretas magazine was highly critical of the dictatorships that have afflicted modern Peru, Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa said in a statement, calling him an “indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy” whose weekly “could never be bribed or intimidated.”