El Imparcial, founded in 1918, was a Puerto Rican

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...

 newspaper

Newspaper

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In the 1970s Miguel A. García Méndez

Miguel A. García Méndez

Miguel Angel García Méndez was a recognized businessman, lawyer, statesman, and banker in Puerto Rico. He was a lifelong statehood supporter for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico...

 bought the newspaper. The building where the newspaper was run then was destroyed by political sabotage in a fire . It kept running for a short time after that with only one third employees until the government expropriated the building where it was located.

Contributing writers

• Luis Pales Matos
  Luis Palés Matos
  Luis Palés Matos was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano.-Early years:...
  
  
• Angel Rivero Mendez
  Ángel Rivero Méndez
  Ángel Rivero Méndez was a Puerto Rican soldier, writer, journalist and a businessman who is credited with inventing the "Kola Champagne" soft drink...
  
  
• Hector Campos Parsi
• Rafael Pont Flores
  Rafael Pont Flores
  Rafael Pont Flores was an educator, sportsman and journalist. He was from the town of Aibonito, Puerto Rico. He directed the "Escuela del Departamento de Instrucción Pública" Magazine. As a sport chronicler he was honored by being included in the Hall of the Immortals of the Crónica Deportiva en...