El Mercurio
El Mercurio is a Chilean daily newspaper with national distribution and a member of the Grupo de Diarios América .
history
El Mercurio was founded in Valparaíso in 1827 by Pedro Félix Vicuña; the edition of the newspaper for the capital Santiago de Chile first appeared on June 1, 1900. The version El Mercurio de Valparaíso is the oldest Spanish-language newspaper in the world that is still published . The paper with a conservative basic orientation is considered the leading daily newspaper (main medium ) of the South American country. In 1880 it was acquired by Agustín Edwards Ross and has been linked to the Edwards family ever since .
The newspaper pioneered several technical innovations in both writing, typesetting and printing. It currently owns one of the most modern printing plants in South America , which was inaugurated in the mid-1980s.
Alignment
The editorial line was - at least under the direction of Agustín Edwards Eastman - extremely conservative, while the large competitor newspaper La Tercera writes more left-wing.
This situation became particularly evident in the bitter opposition of the Mercurio to the Salvador Allende government . Accordingly, the paper then showed a markedly positive attitude towards the military regime of Augusto Pinochet . It was later revealed that El Mercurio had received extensive financial support from the CIA . The US secret service praised the newspaper in a memorandum and certified it to have played an important role in the preparation of Pinochet's coup . (see also US intervention in Chile )
After the Transición , the paper took a moderately critical stance towards the various heads of government from the center-left alliance Concertación de Partidos por la Democracia .
publishing company
The El Mercurio SAP publishing house , which publishes the newspaper, is one of the major owners of other print media in the country, along with its competitor COPESA. El Mercurio SAP owns the following 21 newspapers:
- El Mercurio de Santiago (national distribution)
- Las Últimas Noticias (national distribution)
- La Segunda de Santiago (evening newspaper in the greater Santiago area)
- La Estrella de Arica
- La Estrella de Iquique
- El Mercurio de Antofagasta
- El Mercurio de Calama
- La Estrella del Norte de Antofagasta
- La Estrella del Loa
- La Prensa de Tocopilla
- El Mercurio de Valparaíso
- La Estrella de Valparaíso
- El Líder de San Antonio
- El Líder de Melipilla
- El Diario Austral de Temuco
- El Diario Austral de Valdivia
- El Diario Austral de Osorno
- El Llanquihue de Puerto Montt
- El Renacer de Arauco
- El Renacer de Angol
- La Estrella de Chiloe
See also
- Grupo de Diarios América ( group of American daily newspapers )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grupo de Diarios América - Quenes somos ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Deutschlandradio: Mediale Kreuzzüge , March 17, 2009
- ^ Covert Action in Chile (1963-1973) US Senate, Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities , Staff Report (section Covert Action During the Allende Years, 1970-1973.)