''Crónica'' is a daily newspaper published in

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

. Founded on July 29, 1963, by publisher Héctor Ricardo García, it became well known for its oversized headlines and yellow press approach; as García explained: ''"we needed a strident daily, with large and shocking headlines, like the kind one sees in

Central America Central America is a subregion of North America. Its political boundaries are defined as bordering Mexico to the north, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean to the east, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest. Central America is usually ...

, because our papers were too placid."'' The newspaper eventually reached a daily circulation of 800,000 and rivaled '' Clarín'' as the nation's leading news daily, was shuttered by President

Isabel Perón Isabel Martínez de Perón (, born María Estela Martínez Cartas; 4 February 1931) is an Argentine politician who served as the 41st president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the List of elected and appointed female heads of s ...

in 1975, and though it was reopened in 1977, it never regained its former prominence. ''Crónica'', whose logo is ''Firme junto al pueblo'' ("Firmly with the people"), is published with three editions: morning, evening and night, and its average daily circulation in 2006 was 58,432. It is considered a banal and bizarre way of telling news in

1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking

In 1966, the newspapers founder and then editor Héctor Ricardo García was involved in the 1966 Aerolineas Argentinas DC-4 hijacking in which the far-right Argentine nationalist Condor Group hijacked a commercial flight, redirecting it to the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; ), commonly referred to as The Falklands, is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and from Cape Dub ...

. Amongst the passengers was Argentinian Rear Admiral José María Guzmán, who at the time was the then Governor of Tierra del Fuego (the Argentinian province to which the Falklands theoretically belonged). He claimed to have been invited along as a journalist, but it was later claimed he had been a key supporter in the hijacking.

References

External links

Official site
1963 establishments in Argentina Daily newspapers published in Argentina Newspapers established in 1963 Spanish-language newspapers Mass media in Buenos Aires Argentine news websites {{Argentina-newspaper-stub