''La Capital'' is a local daily newspaper published in

Mar del Plata Mar del Plata is a city on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is the seat of General Pueyrredón district. Mar del Plata is the second largest city in Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" is a s ...

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, founded in 1905. The newspaper was founded by Italian immigrant Victorio Tetamanti in 1905, its first edition being published on 25 May, on the 95th anniversary of the

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. Tettamanti was a former steward at landowner Miguel Martinez de Hoz's ranch or ''

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'' near Chapadmalal, then a rural area southwest of Mar del Plata. Tettamanti and Martinez de Hoz were both members of the ''Comite Mar del Plata'' ("Mar del Plata Comitee"), with strong links to the local upper class, and shared the same conservative ideology. The paper was instrumental to the election as Mar del Plata's mayor of Jose Heguilor, another member of the committee, in 1906. The municipality faced a series of crisis from 1906 to 1911, a period characterized by the collapse of locally-elected governments and direct rule by

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s appointed by the

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senate. In this new context, ''La Capital'' eventually gave support to the ''Junta de Resistencia'' ("Board of Resistance"), a political space that pressed for the continuity of locally-chosen authorities. A democratic process followed, which ended up in 1920 with the election of socialist mayor

Teodoro Bronzini Teodoro Bronzini (October 10, 1888 – August 20, 1981) was an Argentine politician, affiliated with the Socialist Party, who served as Mayor of Mar del Plata for four periods, from the 1920s to the 1960s. He developed a public and private ...

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remained in power until yet another provincial intervention in 1929. A museum and a library were inaugurated at the premises of the old newspaper's office to celebrate its centennial in 2005. As of 2019, its average circulation was 10,000.

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