Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (1854 in San Pedro,

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– 1919 in

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) was a Colombian journalist, founder of ''

El Espectador ''El Espectador'' () is a nationally circulated Colombian newspaper founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez in 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá. It was initially published twice a week, 500 issues each, but some years later became ...

'', Colombia's oldest newspaper. Cano attended high school at Colegio de Jesús in Medellín, then studied at the Colegio del Estado, which would become University of Antioquia. He worked at ''La Palestra'', a literary newspaper, en 1872. Five years later he would become the editor of ''La Idea''. In 1879 he moved to Medellín. On 22 March 1887 he founded ''El Espectador'', whose circulation was suspended 6 times by the

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government, which considered it as "subversive". Cano, as the editor, was jailed several times. Cano also was director of the Official Printing Office, member and president of the Academia Antioqueña de Historia, deputy to the Antioquia Department Assembly,

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, and principal of the Colegio Central of the University of Antioquia.

External links

Biografía de Fidel Cano en la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cano Gutierrez, Fidel 1854 births 1919 deaths People from Antioquia Department Colombian people of Spanish descent Colombian Liberal Party politicians Colombian journalists Colombian male journalists University of Antioquia people Colombian newspaper founders Cano family