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El Mundo (Venezuela)
''El Mundo'' is a Venezuelan evening newspaper. It was launched on 3 February 1958 in Caracas, shortly after the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958. It was founded by Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala, who had launched ''Últimas Noticias'' in 1941. Its first director was journalist and future President Ramón José Velásquez. For most of its existence ''El Mundo'' was the only Venezuelan evening newspaper; a rival, ''April'', was launched by Bloque DeArmas in 1997 but closed in 2003. Another rival, ''Tal Cual'', was launched by Teodoro Petkoff in 2000 after Petkoff had for a time been director of ''El Mundo''. On 20 February 2009, it ceased publication in printed form, with a planned relaunch as a digital-only publication scheduled for 27 April 2009. , accessed 28 February 2009 See also |
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cadena Capriles
Cadena Capriles is a Venezuelan media company that owns the newspapers ''Últimas Noticias'' and '' El Mundo''. ''Últimas Noticias'' is the highest selling daily newspaper in Venezuela. History It was founded by Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala in 1941 with the creation of ''Últimas Noticias'', after the measures implemented by Venezuelan President Medina Angarita loosened restrictions on Venezuelan media. Following the death of Capriles Ayala in 1996 taken over in 1998 by his son, Miguel Ángel Capriles López. Towards the end of the twentieth century Cadena Capriles was (along with Bloque De Armas) one of the two largest producers of Venezuelan magazines, including current affairs journal ''Élite'' and the women's magazines ''Páginas'' and ''Kena''. 2013 sale On 31 May 2013, Cadena Capriles was sold to an unknown party and commentary in its newspapers criticizing the Venezuelan government declined. This was supposedly due to the new owners of the company being close to the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern part of the country, within the Caracas Valley of the Venezuelan coastal mountain range (Cordillera de la Costa). The valley is close to the Caribbean Sea, separated from the coast by a steep 2,200-meter-high (7,200 ft) mountain range, Cerro El Ávila; to the south there are more hills and mountains. The Metropolitan Region of Caracas has an estimated population of almost 5 million inhabitants. The center of the city is still ''Catedral'', located near Bolívar Square, though some consider the center to be Plaza Venezuela, located in the Los Caobos area. Businesses in the city include service companies, banks, and malls. Caracas has a largely service-based economy, apart from some industrial activity in its metropolitan ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It has a territorial extension of , and its population was estimated at 29 million in 2022. The capital and largest urban agglomeration is the city of Caracas. The continental territory is bordered on the north by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Colombia, Brazil on the south, Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east and on the east by Guyana. The Venezuelan government maintains a claim against Guyana to Guayana Esequiba. Venezuela is a federal presidential republic consisting of 23 states, the Capital District and federal dependencies covering Venezuela's offshore islands. Venezuela is among the most urbanized countries in Latin America; the vast majority of Venezuelans live in the cities of the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from 1950 to 1952 and as president from 1952 to 1958. He took part in the 1948 coup d'état, becoming part of the ruling junta. He ran in the 1952 election. However, the junta cancelled the election when early results indicated that the opposition was ahead, and declared Jiménez provisional president. He became president in 1953 and instituted a constitution that granted him dictatorial powers. Under Pérez's rule, the rise of oil prices facilitated many public works projects, including roads, bridges, government buildings and public housing, as well as the rapid development of industries such as hydroelectricity, mining, and steel. The economy of Venezuela developed rapidly while Pérez was in power. On the other hand, Pérez presided over on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala
Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala (28 February 1915, Puerto Cabello - 25 April 1996) was the head of Venezuela's Cadena Capriles media group. Capriles launched ''Últimas Noticias'' in 1941, after the pro-freedom measures implemented by Venezuelan President Medina Angarita. In 1956 Capriles Ayala acquired the newspaper ''La Esfera''. On 3 February 1958, shortly after the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958, Capriles launched '' El Mundo'', which for most of its existence was the only Venezuelan evening newspaper. ''La Esfera'' which was sold in 1966. In 1959 he bought the magazine ''Élite''. In 1962 he acquired the magazines ''Venezuela Gráfica'' and ''Páginas'' (the latter of which folded in 1999); in 1966 he founded ''Diario Crítica'' in Maracaibo, which closed in 1990; in 1968 he founded the ''Suplemento Cultural'' to Últimas Noticias; in 1969 he founded the sports daily ''Extra'' (which folded a year later). In 1970 he founded ''Dominical'', t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Últimas Noticias
''Últimas Noticias'' is a daily newspaper in Venezuela, currently British-owned and characterized by ''The Guardian'' as a "pro-Maduro tabloid". ''Últimas Noticias'' was founded in Caracas on 16 September 1941 after the pro-freedom measures implemented by President Medina Angarita. It initially bore the name ''Diario del Pueblo'' (the people's newspaper), and was created by Víctor Simone D'Lima, "Kotepa" Delgado, Vaughan Salas Lozada and Pedro Beroes. Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala acquired the majority of the shares in 1948. He was the president of ''La Cadena Capriles'', until his death in 1996. His sonMiguel Angel Capriles Lópezassumed that position in 1998 until 2013, starting a modernization process that lasted more than 12 years. On 16 October 2000 it was relaunched, adopting a more colloquial tone and aiming to be more of a guide to daily life. In June 2002 it began printing in colour on every page and launched its Sunday edition aimed to a more middle class audience. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón José Velásquez
Ramón José Velásquez Mujica (28 November 1916 – 24 June 2014) was a Venezuelan politician, historian, journalist, and lawyer. He served as the president of Venezuela between 1993 and 1994. Background and personal life Velásquez was born in Táchira in November 1916. His parents were Ramon Velasquez Ordoñez, a journalist and proofreader for a newspaper and educator Regina Mujica. For his initial studies he was home schooled by his parents in his hometown. He completed his primary education in San Cristóbal Simón Bolívar. In 1935 he traveled to Caracas to finish high school at the Liceo Andres Bello. Velasquez undertook his higher education at the Central University of Venezuela, from which he received a PhD in social and political sciences in 1942 and a law degree in 1943. Writer Velásquez became a reporter for ''Últimas Noticias'' in 1941. Velásquez was the president of '' El Nacional'' on two occasions (1964-1968/1979-1981). He authored numerous books on Venez ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bloque DeArmas
Bloque De Armas is a Venezuelan media company. Among other properties it owns the newspapers ''Diario 2001'' and ''Diario Meridiano'' and the sports network Meridiano Televisión. The company was created in 1969 as a holding company for the various businesses of Armando De Armas. De Armas had launched ''Distribuidora Continental'' in 1947, followed by other businesses (including ''Editorial América'', launched in 1960).Bloque De Armas,Historia 1969 also saw the launch of sports newspaper ''Diario Meridiano'', while ''Diario 2001'' was launched in 1973. In 1965 De Armas expanded into the United States, building a large collection of magazine titles, with Spanish-language versions of Hearst Corporation titles, and acquiring Cuban fashion magazine ''Vanidades'' in 1967 and Colombian publishing company Editorial América Colombia in 1970. De Armas sold Hispanic Magazine Network, U.S.A. to Grupo Anaya in 1989.fundinguniverse.comEditorial Television, S.A. de C.V./ref> In 1993, the Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tal Cual
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Teodoro Petkoff
Teodoro Petkoff Malec (; 3 January 1932 – 31 October 2018) was a Venezuelan politician, guerrilla, economist and journalist. One of Venezuela's most prominent politicians on the left, Petkoff began as a communist but founded the democratic socialist Movement Toward Socialism party after the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. Petkoff was elected as senator and ran for the presidency twice in the 1980s, being defeated both times. As Minister of Planning, he oversaw President Rafael Caldera's adoption of liberalization economic policies in the mid-1990s. He was a prominent critic of President Hugo Chávez and was a candidate to run against him in the 2006 presidential election until he dropped out four months before the vote to support Manuel Rosales. Petkoff launched the newspaper ''Tal Cual'' in 2000 and remained its editor until his death in 2018. Life and career Early years His father was a Bulgarian emigrant and his mother was a Pole of Jewish origin. He receive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Newspapers In Venezuela
This is a list of newspapers in Venezuela, both national and regional. It also includes newspapers with other languages and themes. National Regional Anzoátegui state Apure state Aragua state Barinas state Bolívar state Carabobo state Cojedes state Delta Amacuro state Falcón state Guárico state Lara state Mérida state Miranda state Monagas state Nueva Esparta state Portuguesa state Sucre state Táchira state Trujillo state Vargas state Yaracuy state Zulia state Economic newspapers Sports newspapers Catholic or religion-themed Ethnic minorities Other languages Weekly newspapers Free daily newspapers Defunct Online Daily Newsletters See also * List of television networks in Venezuela Further reading * External links * {{South America topic, List of newspapers in Venezuela Newspapers published in Venezuela Newspapers A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
