''¡Aquí Está!'' ('It's Here!'or 'Here it is!') was a

Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...

n weekly newspaper, the central organ of the

Communist Party of Venezuela The Communist Party of Venezuela (, PCV) is a communist party in Venezuela. Founded in 1931, it is the oldest active political party in Venezuela, and was the country's main leftist party until it fractured into rival factions in 1971. The P ...

. ''¡Aquí Está!'' was founded in 1942 by

Miguel Otero Silva Miguel Otero Silva (October 26, 1908 – August 28, 1985), was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, humorist and politician. A figure of great relevance in Venezuelan literature, his literary and journalistic works related strictly to the socio-polit ...

(recently returned from exile), as the Venezuelan political climate was liberalized under

Isaías Medina Angarita Isaías Medina Angarita (6 July 1897 – 15 September 1953) was a Venezuelan military and politician who served as President of Venezuela from 1941 until 1945, during World War II. He followed the path of his predecessor Eleazar López Contre ...

.Academia Nacional de la Historia (Venezuela).
Boletín de la Academia Nacional de la Historia
'. Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia], 2001. pp. 227, 229 ''¡Aquí Está!'' substituted the previous Communist Party organ ''El Martillo'', which had been re-launched in 1938. ''¡Aquí Está!'' was marked by a ' Earl Browder, Browderist' editorial line. Apart from Otero Silva, other editors of ''¡Aquí Está!'' were Carlos Augusto Léon and Ernesto Silva Tellerías. The newspaper was published from

Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...

. Through ''¡Aquí Está!'' the Communist Party was able to win a considerable influence over the urban intelligentsia. ''¡Aquí Está!'' published a large amount of Juan Bautista Fuenmayor's, general secretary of the Communist Party of Venezuela, journalistic works. On September 10, 1946, ahead of the Constituent Assembly election the Communist Party decided to merge ''¡Aquí Está!'' with another communist newspaper, ''Unidad'', and launch a new publication, ''El Popular''.Díaz Rangel, Eleazar.
La prensa venezolana en el siglo XX
'. Caracas, Venezuela: Ediciones B, 2007. p. 209

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