Ismael Pérez Pazmiño (

Machala Machala () is a city in south-west Ecuador. It is the capital of the El Oro Province, and is located near the Gulf of Guayaquil on fertile lowlands. Machala has a population of 241,606 (2010 census); it is the eighth-biggest city in the country, a ...

, June 30, 1876 - Los Angeles, November 1, 1944) was founder of

El Universo ''El Universo'' (Spanish for "The Universe") is one of the largest daily newspapers in Ecuador. It was founded in 1921 and the first edition was published September 16 of the same year. Its headquarters are located in Guayaquil. The newspaper ha ...

newspaper of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and former senator of El Oro province. He was born in

in El Oro province. His parents were José Pérez Santander and Elena Pazmiño Gómez. On September 16, 1921, he published the first edition of El Universo. He was married to Herlinda Castro Santander de Pérez Pazmiño. His children were Ismael, Sucre, Francisco, Efraín, Franklin Pérez Castro, and his grandchildren are Carlos Pérez Perasso, Francisco Pérez Febres-Cordero. El Universo is still run by Pérez Pazmiño's descendants. Many educational institutions and streets bear his name in Ecuador. He died of cancer in Los Angeles, California on November 1, 1944.

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