''El Ancasti'' is a local daily newspaper published in

San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca () is the capital and largest city in Catamarca Province in northwestern Argentina, on the Río Valle River, at the feet of the Cerro Ambato. The city name is normally shortened as Catamarca. The city of , ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

. ''El Ancasti'' was founded on July 8, 1988, and like the town of the same name, was named for a Cácan term referring to the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

that dominate Catamarca Province. ''El Ancasti'' became Catamarca's leading news daily, eclipsing ''La Unión'', established in 1928. The newspaper would later maintain a conflicted relationship with Governor

Arnoldo Castillo Arnoldo Castillo (April 29, 1922 – September 29, 2005) was an Argentine politician. Life and times Arnoldo Aníbal Castillo was born to Carmen Berrondo and Gualberto Castillo in Quilmes, a suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1922. His parents relocated ...

and his son and successor,

Oscar Castillo Oscar Aníbal Castillo (born 18 January 1954) is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, currently a Senator for the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca and a former governor of that province. He is the son of the late Arnoldo Castil ...

, whose administrations initiated numerous lawsuits against the daily and withdrew advertising.

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