El Nacional
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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 El Universal, are the two most widely read and circulated daily national newspapers in the country. It is one of the more important newspapers of the country with an average of more than 170,000 papers distributed daily. El Nacional is a newspaper of Venezuela with a traditional of left-centered ideology.
[edit] Contributors and owners
El Nacional was founded in August 1943 in Caracas by Miguel Otero Vizcarrondo and currently is directed by Chief Editorial Officer Miguel Henrique Otero, grandson of the founder, and by Chief Executive Officer Manuel Sucre.
The newspaper's first director was poet Antonio Arráiz (1903-1962). In the newspaper many of the recognized Venezuelan writers have contributed written work. Arturo Úslar Pietri, one of the most important intellectuals of the country, wrote for more than fifty years in an opinion column in the newspaper.
[edit] Change in El Nacional
Historically, the newspaper received criticism by the governments under the AD and COPEI parties for it has tended to support the political beliefs of moderate left. At the end of 20th century it tacitly supported President Hugo Chávez. However, since the radicalization of Chavez's politics and position, the newspaper now holds an active anti-Chavez tone.
There is also a digital edition of El Nacional to which users can subscribe for an annual fee that was published for the first time in 1995.
Recently, under the leadership of Manuel Sucre, who joined the company in the year 2000 after serving as CFO for the food-conglomerate Mavesa, El Nacional, along with other daily newspaper of the region, El Tiempo of Colombia, El Mercurio of Chile and La Nación of Argentina, created the of the Daily Group of America (GDA). .
