''Ojo'' is a
Peruvian
tabloid newspaper founded in 1968 by businessman
Luis Banchero Rossi.
History
Ojo was founded on March 14, 1968, as a
morning newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports an ...
in
Lima. Its founder was the businessman
Luis Banchero Rossi, who had already founded the newspaper chain
''Correo'', under the leadership of the ''Empresa Periodística Nacional SA'' (Epensa). For this journalistic adventure, Banchero counted his brother-in-law Enrique Agois Paulsen as a partner. Its first director was Raúl Villarán and the value of each copy was
S/.1.00.
After the murder of Luis Banchero, the Agois family continued to run the Epensa journalism company. Both ''Correo'' and ''Ojo'' were seized at the hands of the
military dictatorship
A military dictatorship is a dictatorship in which the military exerts complete or substantial control over political authority, and the dictator is often a high-ranked military officer.
The reverse situation is to have civilian control of the m ...
of
Juan Velasco Alvarado
Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado (June 16, 1910 – December 24, 1977) was a Peruvian general who served as the President of Peru after a successful coup d'état against Fernando Belaúnde's presidency in 1968. Under his presidency, nationalism ...
in 1974, which they recovered with the
restoration of democracy in 1980. In the following decades, Epensa launched new journalistic creations, the sports newspaper ''El Bocón'' and newspaper ''Ajá''.
In 2013, the
El Comercio Group acquired 54% of the Epensa shareholding package, taking over printing, marketing and advertising, while Epensa retained management of the contents of ''Correo'', ''Ojo'' and ''El Bocón''. Consequently, in 2014, Epensa (transformed into Epensa Group SAC) changed its social rationale for that of ''Pressmart SAC''.
In 2018, Grupo El Comercio bought all of the shares of Prensmart SAC. The Epensa SAC Group (Gesac), headed by Luis Agois, continued to be in charge of the editorial line of ''Correo'', ''Ojo'' and ''El Bocón'' until 2019.
See also
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Correo (newspaper)
''Diario Correo'' is a daily newspaper with national circulation in Peru, directed by Iván Slocovich Pardo, belonging to the El Comercio Group.
History
It was founded in Tacna, in 1962, by the fishing entrepreneur Luis Banchero Rossi, thus ...
References
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Newspapers published in Peru
Spanish-language newspapers
Newspapers established in 1968
Culture in Lima