''El Tiempo'' ( en, "Time" or "The Times") is a nationally distributed

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daily newspaper in Colombia launched on January 30th, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos Calderón family. Several also participated in Colombian politics:

Eduardo Santos Montejo Eduardo Santos Montejo (August 28, 1888 – March 27, 1974) was a leading Colombian publisher and politician, active in the Colombian Liberal Party. He owned the prominent Bogotá newspaper ''El Tiempo'', and served as the President of Colombia ...

was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942.

Francisco Santos Calderón Francisco Santos Calderón (born 14 August 1961), also known as Pacho Santos, is a Colombian politician and journalist. Santos was elected as Álvaro Uribe's running mate and became Vice President in 2002. Santos was re-elected in 2006 for a sec ...

served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And

Juan Manuel Santos Juan Manuel Santos Calderón (; born 10 August 1951) is a Colombian politician who was the President of Colombia from 2010 to 2018. He was the sole recipient of the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. An economist by profession and a journalist by trade ...

as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish

Grupo Planeta Planeta Corporación, S.R.L., doing business as Grupo Planeta (), is a Spanish mass media conglomerate operating in Spain, Portugal, France and Latin America. It is the world's leading Spanish-language book publisher. Editorial Planeta, founded in ...

acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel

Citytv Bogotá Citytv is a Colombian free-to-air television channel, owned by El Tiempo Casa Editorial (ETCE), owner of the newspaper of the same name. ETCE licensed the Canadian brand Citytv from CHUM Limited CHUM Limited was a Canadian media company ba ...

. In 2012, businessman

Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo (born 27 January 1933) is a Colombian billionaire and the second wealthiest man in Colombia, with a net worth of US$10.3 billion, as of October 2021, that derives from the banking conglomerate Grupo Aval, of which ...

bought the shares of Planeta, the Santos family and other small shareholders, becoming the only owner of the newspaper. ''El Tiempo'' is considered a

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for Colombia.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his brother-in-law,

. From then until 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family, as part of the media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo. In 2007, the Spanish

obtained majority ownership of the daily, but in 2012 sold majority ownership to

who now owns 86% of ''El Tiempo''. Between 2001 and 2008, when ''El Espectador'' was published as a weekly newspaper, ''El Tiempo'' was Colombia's only national daily newspaper. ''El Tiempo'' is considered a

for Colombia.

Distribution

''El Tiempo'' is published in six regional editions: * Bogotá * Caribe (Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Riohacha and Valledupar) * Medellín * Café (Pereira, Manizales, Armenia) * Cali (Cali, Popayán, Pasto) * Region, for the remainder of the country. On Sundays there are special sections. For about 3 years it published every Sunday a special section with a weekly selection of articles from '' The New York Times'', translated into

Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...

and using the same pictures. This section was dropped in January 2008 and since August 2008 it has been published by rival newspaper ''El Espectador''. ''El Tiempo'' is part of

Grupo de Diarios América Grupo de Diarios América () is a consortium of 11 major newspapers in Latin America. GDA was founded in 1991 by ''O Globo'' (Brazil), ''La Nación'' (Argentina), ''El Mercurio'' (Chile), '' El Tiempo'' (Colombia), '' El Comercio'' (Ecuador), ''L ...

(America Newspaper Group), an organization of eleven leading newspapers from eleven Latin American countries.

References

External links

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