''El Siglo'' is a

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an weekly newspaper, that is the official organ of the Central Committee of the

Chilean Communist Party The Communist Party of Chile ( es, Partido Comunista de Chile, ) is a communist party in Chile. It was founded in 1912 as the Socialist Workers' Party () and adopted its current name in 1922. The party established a youth wing, the Communist Youth ...

. The newspaper was founded on August 31, 1940. On July 14, 1948 it was closed down as consequence of the anti-communist Defense of Democracy Law. From September 10, 1949 it was published clandestinely. On October 25, 1952 it was once again openly published. After the

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, it was once again closed down, although it was published clandestinely under

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. In 1989 it became a weekly magazine.

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