Weekly newspaper

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 published in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 in 1933 by Ramon Gomez Portillo

Ramon Gomez Portillo

Ramón Raimundo Gómez Portillo Poet and journalist born in Ocaña, North of Santander, Colombia. Son of Ramón Gómez Garcia and Anselma Portillo Quintero. Close relative of Laureano Gomez Castro, the former President of Colombia. He was the first journalist in Ocaña and published "El Escalpelo", a...

 (1908–1948) the first journalist

Journalist

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 who lived in Ocaña

Ocaña, Colombia

Ocaña is a town and municipality in the Colombian Department of Norte de Santander. Ocaña is the second largest populated center of this department. It played an important role during the Independence of Colombia from the Spanish monarchy.-History:...

, North of Santander, Colombia

Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...

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El Escalpelo dealt with commentaries and critics about the local government and some events in the town.
Original copies of El Escalpelo can be found in the Archivo General de la Nación

General National Archive (Colombia)

The General Archive of the Nation is a Colombian government agency ascribed to the Colombian Ministry of Culture charged with "conserving the historical legacy, as well as recovering and circulating the documentary heritage of the country." It is the head of the National System of Archives. The...

de Colombia.

Source

Source: Archivo General de la Nacion de Colombia. "1933 D1S1 MP2-4000 El Escalpelo: periodico eventual de critica/ Ramon R. Gomez P., director propietario".

Picture: First Issue of El Escalpelo, 1933. Copy Rights: A. Bayona G.