In December 1957 García Márquez accepted a position in Caracas with the magazine "Momento" directed by his friend Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza. He arrived in the Venezuelan capital on 23 December 1957, and began working right away at "Momento". García Márquez also witnessed the 1958 Venezuelan coup d'état, leading to the exile of the president Marcos Pérez Jiménez. Following this event, García Márquez wrote an article, "The participation of the clergy in the struggle", describing the Church of Venezuela opposition against Jiménez's regime. In March 1958 he made a trip to Colombia, where he married Mercedes Barcha and together they returned to Caracas. In May 1958, disagreeing with the owner of "Momento", he resigned and became shortly afterwards editor of the newspaper "Venezuela Gráfica".