Teresa López Bustamante (1888 – 1942) was a

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journalist, founder of the Catholic Venezuelan newspaper ''La Columna'' (The Column).

Biography

Teresa López Bustamante was born in

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, on October 24, 1888. Her father was journalist and editor Eduardo López Rivas, owner of the Venezuelan newspaper Diario El Fonógrafo (The Phonograph Daily) and the publishing house Imprenta Americana (American Press). Her mother was the niece of Venezuelan pioneer physician Francisco Eugenio Bustamante and a descendant of

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. She started to work at the family publishing house in her teen years and, together with her brothers Carlos López Bustamante and Eduardo López Bustamante, she was educated by her father and became an accomplished journalist. When her father died in 1913 she and her brothers took charge of the newspaper ''El Fonógrafo'' and of the publishing house ''Imprenta Americana''. Due to its support of the

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during

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, in 1917 Venezuelan president

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permanently closed down the newspaper ''El Fonógrafo'' and consequently the editorial house. Her brothers were imprisoned and the government began to watch and isolate Teresa. She was forbidden to leave the city of Maracaibo and to write in any other newspaper. She started to work as a school teacher in Maracaibo and founded several charity organizations in the Venezuelan

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state. In 1924 she founded the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo, ''El bien del pueblo'' (The good of the people). It soon became a daily newspaper, ''La Columna'' (The Column), and one of the most important newspapers of the Zulia state. She died in Maracaibo in 1942.Nagel Von Jess, Kurt, ''Algunas familias maracaiberas'' (Some Maracaibo families), University of Zulia Press, Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1989.

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