Carlos Mendo (26 June 1933 – 23 August 2010) was a Spanish journalist. In 1972, Mendo co-founded ''

El País ''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El ...

'', Spain's most widely circulated daily newspaper. Born in

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, Mendo began his career in

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in 1958 when he joined the Spanish

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, EFE. He later left EFE in order to join

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(UPI). He became United Press International's first

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, before becoming UPI's Spain bureau chief. In 1965, Mendo rejoined EFE as a

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. He oversaw much of EFE's expansion until his second departure in 1969. Mendo was hired by PRISA publishing group, where he became part of the team that founded and launched ''

'' in 1972. The newspaper's other co-founders at PRISA included José Ortega Spottorno, Jesús de Polanco, and Juan Luis Cebrián. Although ''El País'' is considered a liberal publication, Mendo was a

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. He remained active at ''El País'' after the newspaper was founded, including a stint as a reporter in Washington, D.C. In 1979, Mendo became the newspaper's London correspondent. Carlos Mendo died on 23 August 2010 at the age of 77, after several weeks in hospital.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mendo, Carlos 1933 births 2010 deaths Spanish reporters and correspondents People from Madrid