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El Universal (Caracas)
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Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n newspaper, headquartered in Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
with an average daily circulation of about 150,000. The online version carries news, politics, sports, economy and more.
El Universal was founded in April 1909 in Caracas
Caracas
Caracas , officially Santiago de León de Caracas, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela; natives or residents are known as Caraquenians in English . It is located in the northern part of the country, following the contours of the narrow Caracas Valley on the Venezuelan coastal mountain range...
by the Venezuelan poet Andrés Mata
Andrés Mata
Andrés Mata was a Venezuelan poet, writer and journalist.-Life:Andrés Mata was born in Carúpano, Venezuela, in 1870. He is considered a poet of modernist trend, who did not resign to Romanticism completely...
and his friend Andrés Vigas
Andrés Vigas
Andrés Jorge Vigas Syers was a Venezuelan lawyer, journalist, essayist and politician.He was born in Cumaná, the capital city of Sucre State, in eastern Venezuela....
. Its main rival is El Nacional
El Nacional
El Nacional is a Venezuelan publishing company under the name C.A. Editorial El Nacional, most widely known for its El Nacional newspaper. It, along with Últimas Noticias and El Universal, are the most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country, and it has an average of...
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It is considered to be conservative and business-oriented, though it has at times both supported and criticized the policies of President Hugo Chávez
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...
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El Universal is part of the Latin American Newspaper Association
Latin American Newspaper Association
- Latin American Newspaper Association :PAL is an acronym for Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos .PAL is a press group representing media organizations in South America...
(Spanish, Periódicos Asociados Latinoamericanos), an organization of 14 leading newspapers in South America.