El Comercio (Peru)
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| description | Peruvian newspaper |
| publishing company | Empresa Editora El Comercio SA |
| First edition | May 4, 1839 |
| Sold edition | 120,000 copies |
| editor | Alejandro Miró Quesada Cisneros |
| Web link | elcomercio.pe |
El Comercio (Spanish for “The Trade”) is a Peruvian daily newspaper based in Lima .
El Comercio belongs to Empresa Editorial El Comercio SA , which also publishes the newspapers “Trome”, “Peru21” and the business paper “Gestión”. She is a member of the Grupo de Diarios América .
history
The Comercio is one of the oldest Spanish-language newspapers and the oldest daily newspaper in Peru that is still published today; the first edition appeared on May 4, 1839. Since 1875 the newspaper has been owned by the Miro Quesada family. During the military dictatorship of General Velasco in the 1970s, the family was expropriated. On July 28, 1980, the original owners got the Comercio back.
Alignment
The newspaper pursues a bourgeois-conservative but independent line. B. the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its chairman, Salomón Lerner Febres , against attacks by the government and the army.