El Nacional (Venezuela)
El Nacional is a Venezuelan daily newspaper with a traditional left-liberal orientation. The paper appears daily, including Sundays. Its daily circulation is around 100,000 from Monday to Saturday and around 250,000 on Sundays (as of January 2010).
El Nacional was founded in Caracas in August 1943 and is now run by Manuel Sucre and Miguel Henrique Otero , son of Miguel Otero Silva and grandson of the founder of the newspaper Henrique Otero Vizcarrondo .
The first director was the poet Antonio Arráiz (1903–1962). In addition, many well-known Venezuelan writers participated. For example, one of the country's best-known intellectuals, Arturo Uslar Pietri , wrote an opinion column in the paper for more than fifty years .
The political orientation is moderately left, for which it has been criticized by previous governments under the parties AD and COPEI .
Towards the end of the 20th century, the paper campaigned for Hugo Chávez to stand for candidacy , but after the radicalization of Chavez's policies, it is more critical of the government.
There is a digital edition of El Nacional, which was first published in 1996 and can be subscribed to for an annual fee.
In 2000, the paper joined the Grupo de Diarios América (Spanish for the group of American newspapers ) ( GDA ), which includes the Latin American publications El Tiempo ( Colombia ), El Mercurio ( Chile ), La Nación ( Argentina ) .
On October 27, 2013 El Nacional had to temporarily stop its print edition due to a lack of paper. Due to government foreign exchange controls, Venezuela's newspapers that do not report on the government line are rarely given the necessary foreign exchange for the import of printing paper.
In 2017 abc.es had written that El Nacional was one of the few newspapers that could still have withstood the "wild attacks of the regime against freedom of expression", on December 14, 2018 the newspaper published its last paper edition as it was not on paper by the regime got; Even the website was not available to Venezuelans at the beginning of February 2019 because it was "not acceptable to the power apparatus".
Web links
- Official website of the El Nacional newspaper (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nelson Rivera: Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , El Nacional from October 27, 2013
- ↑ Ewald Scharfenberg: La falta de papel obliga al cierre de periódicos en Venezuela , El País of September 3, 2013
- ↑ Venezuela: falta papel prensa, y los diarios cancelan suplementos , Infobae of October 28, 2013
- ↑ Maduro se ceba con la prensaCierres, confiscaciones, asfixia económica y coacciones constituyen el día a día de los medios críticos con el régimen , abc.es, April 10, 2017
- ↑ Media censorship in Venezuela - The name "Juan Guaidó" is taboo on radio and television , SRF, February 2, 2019
