''El Dínamo'' is a
Chile
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an
online newspaper
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Goin ...
founded in 2010.
In late 2009,
Sebastián Sichel
Sebastián Iglesias Sichel Ramírez (born 30 July 1977) is a Chilean lawyer, professor, mayor elect of Ñuñoa, ex minister of State and politician who served as president of the () from June 2020 until December 2020. He also previously serve ...
―then Sebastián Iglesias― presented the communicational project that would end up being ''El Dínamo''.
Later, the newspaper was supported by then
Christian democratic
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Christian democracy has drawn mainly from Catholic social teaching and neo-scholasticism, as well ...
Juan José Santa Cruz, leader of the think tank Giro País.
History
After the defeat of the Christian-democratic candidate
Eduardo Frei Ruíz-Tagle
Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz–Tagle (; born 24 June 1942) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as president of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He was also a Senator, fulfilling the role of President of the Senate from 2006 t ...
against
Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique (; 1 December 1949 – 6 February 2024) was a Chilean businessman and politician who served as President of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic Party (C ...
(
centre-right
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) in
2009 Chilean presidential election, Giro País decided, through its then executive director Sebastián Iglesias, to create a medium that promotes a "culture of the opposition in the current
Concertación
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",
because Giro País would be "a center of action more than of thought and we want it to put centre and liberal ideas capable of bringing to the new opposition the modernity, which was left behind in time".
[ Thus, Ediciones Giro País SpA was officially created and was initially established by Mariana Aylwin,][ and Juan José Santa Cruz,][ who later became the financier and campaign manager of Andrés Velasco,]Minister of Finance
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of Michelle Bachelet
Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria (; born 29 September 1951) is a Chilean politician who served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and again from 2014 to 2018, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency. She was re-elected in December ...
first government (2006–2010).
References
External links
El Dínamo Official Web Site
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2010 establishments in Chile
Chilean news websites
Internet properties established in 2010
Newspapers established in 2010
Spanish-language websites
Mass media in Santiago, Chile