El Universal (Colombia)

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El Universal
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description Colombian daily newspaper
publishing company Editoria del Mar SA
First edition March 8, 1948
Frequency of publication daily / saturday
Sold edition 25,000
copies on weekdays 32,000 copies on Sundays
Editor-in-chief Germán Mendoza Diago
editor Pedro Luis Mogollón Vélez
Web link eluniversal.com.co
ISSN (print)

El Universal is a Colombian regional newspaper which is published in the Caribbean coastal city of Cartagena de Indias and is widely read all over the Caribbean coastal region of Colombia . It was started on September 1, 1948 by Domingo López Escauriaza and Eduardo Ferrer Ferrer and is close to the Liberal Party of Colombia .

history

The newspaper appears daily on 28 to 30 pages, on Sundays with some supplements, with the segments municipal, politics, education, sport, entertainment and technology. Today the paper is without a doubt the leading newspaper in the Caribbean region , with full coverage of Cartagena and the rest of the Bolívar , Sucre and Cordoba departments . El Universal has editorial offices in Bogotá , Barranquilla and Medellín .

The writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature Gabriel García Márquez was one of the editors of the newspaper from the beginning.

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Coordinates: 10 ° 25 ′ 16.33 "  N , 75 ° 32 ′ 24.18"  W.