El Universal (Venezuela)

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Headquarters in Caracas

El Universal is a Venezuelan daily newspaper with an average of 80,000 copies a day (200,000 on Sundays).

history

The newspaper was founded on April 1, 1909 by the Venezuelan writer Andrés Mata and the journalist and politician Andrés Vigas . The long-term owners were the Núñez family together with various business groups. The printing publisher is Editorial Ambos Mundos CA It was one of the few independent newspapers in Venezuela's media landscape, which was increasingly being brought into line by the Chavist government.

On 5 July 2014, the sale of the newspaper to the previously unknown Spanish was private equity -Gesellschaft Epalisticia SL with just 3,500 euros equity sold. Observers suspect high figures from the Chavist government of Venezuela behind the company. The purchase price is said to have been around 22 million US dollars . The new president of the newspaper is Jesús Abreu Anselmi , brother of the director of the El Sistema children's orchestra , José Antonio Abreu . This, however, denies connections to Chavismo, although the paper is now practicing jubilation reports about Hugo Chávez or Nicolás Maduro .

Content

In addition to general political information, the newspaper mainly focuses on business news, which is also reflected in the stock market section. So far, an online edition has also appeared daily.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Matthias Rüb: It only gets better when it gets worse , FAZ from July 26, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2014
  2. El Universal Buyer Betting on Political Change in Venezuela , Bloomberg News, July 10, 2014, accessed July 31, 2014
  3. Un "chiringuito" español, creado para la compra de "El Universal" , abc.es of July 9, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2014 (Spanish)
  4. El nuevo presidente de "El Universal" niega vínculos con el chavismo , abc.es of July 15, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2014 (Spanish)
  5. Archive link ( memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-leipzig.de