Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala (28 February 1915,

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- 25 April 1996) was the head of

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media group. Capriles launched ''

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'' in 1941, after the pro-freedom measures implemented by Venezuelan President Medina Angarita. In 1956 Capriles Ayala acquired the newspaper ''La Esfera''. On 3 February 1958, shortly after the end of the dictatorship of

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on 23 January 1958, Capriles launched '' El Mundo'', which for most of its existence was the only Venezuelan evening newspaper. ''La Esfera'' which was sold in 1966. In 1959 he bought the magazine ''Élite''. In 1962 he acquired the magazines ''Venezuela Gráfica'' and ''Páginas'' (the latter of which folded in 1999); in 1966 he founded ''Diario Crítica'' in

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, which closed in 1990; in 1968 he founded the ''Suplemento Cultural'' to Últimas Noticias; in 1969 he founded the sports daily ''Extra'' (which folded a year later). In 1970 he founded ''Dominical'', the Sunday magazine of Últimas Noticias, and the magazin ''Hipódromo''; in 1972 he bought ''Kena'' (folded in 1999) and founded ''Kabala'' and ''Alarma'' (folded in 1973); in 1974 he founded the Maracaibo newspaper ''El Vespertino'', which folded in 1982. In 1988 he founded ''Guía Hípica'', which folded in 2007. Following the death of Capriles Ayala in 1996 taken over in 1998 by his son,

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. La Cadena Capriles founded in 2005 ''URBE'' and the sports publication ''Líder'' and acquired ''Urbe Bikini''. In 2009, it founded ''El Mundo Economía y Negocios''. Other media enterprises currently owned by La Cadena Capriles include ''La Cadena Multicolor'' and ''PlanetaurbeTV''. Capriles was elected to the

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in 1968 on COPEI's

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and seven Capriles nominees were elected to the

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, including the editor of '' El Mundo'', Pedro Ramon Romero. Capriles Ayala's brother, the journalist and historian Carlos Capriles Ayala, was named Ambassador to Spain. EFE, ''

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'', 5 July 1969,
El nuevo embajador de Venezuela en Espana, don Carlos Capriles, define los propositos de su alta mision

Family

Miguel is the father of Tanya Capriles Brillembourg, who is a renowned art collector, owner of the gallery exhibition space calle
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, and Board of Trustees member for the

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, the New World Symphony in

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, and the

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and the grandfather of David Brillembourg who is the Director of the

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Books

* ''Memorias de la inconformidad'', 1973 * ''Siempre habrá Venezuela'', Editorial Domingo Fuentes, 1985

References

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