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, known for widely covering the

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on editions called ''Mini Cromos''. The magazine was founded in 1916 by Miguel Santiago Valencia and Abelardo Arboleda, both from the Colombian city of

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. It is published on a weekly basis and has its headquarters in Bogotá, D.C. ''Cromos'' is part of the

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