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El Tiempo (Colombia)
El Tiempo is the highest circulation daily newspaper in Colombia and the only non-tabloid daily with national distribution. As of 2004, it had an average weekday circulation of 314,000, rising to 453,000 for the Sunday edition.
The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his son-in-law, Eduardo Santos Montejo. El Tiempo's main shareholders were members of the Santos family, as part of the media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo. In 2007, the Spanish Grupo Planeta obtained majority ownership of the daily.
El Tiempo has enjoyed monopoly status in Colombian media as the only daily that circulates nationally, as most smaller dailies have limited distribution outside their own regions. El Espectador, El Tiempo's longtime rival, was reduced to a weekly publication following an internal financial crisis in 2001.
Several members of the Santos family who were also El Tiempo shareholders have participated in Colombian politics, including Eduardo Santos Montejo, who was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Also, most recently, Vicepresident Francisco Santos Calderon and Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos have served during President Alvaro Uribe's administration.
El Tiempo is published in six regional editions:
Bogota
Caribe
Medellin
Cafe
Cali
Region, for the remainder of the country.
On Sundays there are special sections. At least from 2 years ago every Sunday there is a special section with a weekly selection of articles from The New York Times, translated to Spanish and using the same pictures.
El Tiempo is part of Grupo de Diarios America (America Newspaper Group), an organization of eleven leading newspapers from eleven Latin American countries.
Notes
Grupo de Diarios America (2005), "Circulation 2004". PDF file.
External links
Casa Editorial El Tiempo web page
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