''El Tiempo'' ( en, "Time" or "The Times") is a nationally distributed broadsheet

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in Colombia launched on January 30th, 1911. , ''El Tiempo'' had the highest circulation in Colombia with an average daily weekday of 1,137,483 readers, rising to 1,921,571 readers for the Sunday edition. From 1913 to 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos Calderón family. Several also participated in Colombian politics: Eduardo Santos Montejo was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942.

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served as Vice-President (2002–2010). And

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as Defense Minister (2006–2009) during Álvaro Uribe's administration; Juan Manuel was elected president of Colombia in 2010 and served in that position until 2018. In 2007, Spanish

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acquired 55% of the ''Casa Editorial El Tiempo'' media group, including the newspaper and its associated TV channel

Citytv Bogotá Citytv is a Colombian free-to-air television channel, owned by El Tiempo Casa Editorial (ETCE), owner of the newspaper of the same name. ETCE licensed the Canadian brand Citytv from CHUM Limited (later sold off to Rogers Rogers may refer to: ...

. In 2012, businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo bought the shares of Planeta, the Santos family and other small shareholders, becoming the only owner of the newspaper. ''El Tiempo'' is considered a newspaper of record for Colombia.

History

The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his brother-in-law, Eduardo Santos Montejo. From then until 2007, ''El Tiempos main shareholders were members of the Santos family, as part of the media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo. In 2007, the Spanish

obtained majority ownership of the daily, but in 2012 sold majority ownership to Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo who now owns 86% of ''El Tiempo''. Between 2001 and 2008, when ''El Espectador'' was published as a weekly newspaper, ''El Tiempo'' was Colombia's only national daily newspaper. ''El Tiempo'' is considered a newspaper of record for Colombia.

Distribution

''El Tiempo'' is published in six regional editions: * Bogotá * Caribe (Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Riohacha and Valledupar) * Medellín * Café (Pereira, Manizales, Armenia) * Cali (Cali, Popayán, Pasto) * Region, for the remainder of the country. On Sundays there are special sections. For about 3 years it published every Sunday a special section with a weekly selection of articles from ''

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'', translated into

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and using the same pictures. This section was dropped in January 2008 and since August 2008 it has been published by rival newspaper ''El Espectador''. ''El Tiempo'' is part of

Grupo de Diarios América Grupo de Diarios América () is a consortium of 11 major newspapers in Latin America. GDA was founded in 1991 by ''O Globo'' (Brazil), ''La Nación'' (Argentina), ''El Mercurio'' (Chile), '' El Tiempo'' (Colombia), '' El Comercio'' (Ecuador), ''L ...

(America Newspaper Group), an organization of eleven leading newspapers from eleven Latin American countries.

References

External links

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