El Diario de Caracas
 Logo of El Diario de Caracas | |
| Type | Digital newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Website |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Caracas, Venezuela |
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El Diario de Caracas now eldiariodeCaracas.com is one of the best known newspapers of Venezuela. El Diario de Caracas was founded in 1979 by a group of investors who had the concern to launch a tabloid newspaper critical orientation socio-cultural and political. It was co-founded in 1979 by Diego Arria and the writer Tomas Eloy Martinez, an Argentine exile. Another Argentine exile, Rodolfo Terragno, was at one time its editor-in-chief., and later the Group 1BC-RCTV, which obtained a majority stake in El Diario de Caracas. The newspaper would continue to grow to become a reference of the capital city and nationally. During the eighties, The Journal was reduced financial capacity despite its circulation had grown exponentially. The board of shareholders of IBC-RCTV decided to close its doors in 1995.
El Diario de Caracas subsequently integrates with The Daily Journal, a Venezuelan newspaper in English, home owned by businessman Peruvian Julio Augusto Lopez Enriquez, who sold to El Diario de Caracas in 2004. After several changes of shareholders and relaunch attempts, El Diario de Caracas stopped circulating as printed newspaper.
From May 2, 2012 El Diario de Caracas returns in its digital version diariodeCaracas.com in the Internet cloud.