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El Comercio (Peru)
El Comercio is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima. Founded in 1839, it is the oldest newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish-language papers in the world. It has a daily circulation of more than 120,000. It is considered a newspaper of record and one of the most influential media in Peru.
El Comercio began as a commercial, political and literary newspaper. Its first publication was on Saturday, May 4, 1839 by José Manuel Amunátegui y Muñoz (Chile, June 3, 1802 — Lima October 21, 1886) and Alejandro Villota (Buenos Aires, 1803 — Paris, February 20, 1861). It was originally a one-sheet afternoon newspaper printed on both sides in tabloid format. The price of the first edition was one silver real. Its motto was "Order, freedom, knowledge." In total there were ten people who prepared the first issue. Printing was made on a handlebar "Scott" flatbed press, powered by a mule-driven winch.
Its first headquarters was the Casa de la Pila, located at Calle del Arzobispo No. 147 (current block 2 of Jr. Junín). Twenty-four days later it moved to Calle de San Pedro No. 63 (current block 3 of the Jr. Ucayali), both in the Cercado de Lima.
On August 9, 1839, the diary was published with four pages. Also in that month, its morning edition was launched and its afternoon edition was renamed from vespertina to de la tarde, remaining as such for a little more than 120 years. At the end of 1841, the newspaper moved to a farm located on the corner formed by the streets of San Antonio and La Rifa. Seventy-eight years later, this old house was demolished to make way for the new location on the corner of the current Lampa and Santa Rosa streets in the historic centre of Lima. In 1855, he acquired his first "Marinoni" reaction press, which was powered by steam and produced just over a thousand copies per hour.
On January 1, 1867, José Antonio Miró Quesada (Panama City, January 15, 1845 — Lima, October 20, 1930) began working at the newspaper as a correspondent in Callao at the age of twenty-two. In 1875, Manuel Amunátegui gave control of the newspaper to Luis Carranza Ayarza and José Antonio Miró Quesada, who formed the company Carranza, Miró Quesada y Compañía. They established in the act of incorporation that, after the death of the first of them, the surviving partner could purchase the company's shares without the family of the deceased having any other right than to receive the respective financial compensation.
Between January 16, 1880 and October 23, 1884, El Comercio stopped publishing as a consequence of the closure ordered by Nicolás de Piérola and the subsequent occupation of Lima by the Chilean Army during the War of the Pacific.
After Carranza's death in 1898, Miró Quesada acquired the shares and since then the Miró Quesada family has controlled the newspaper.
At the beginning of the 20th century, El Comercio would become the most influential newspaper in the country, whose Miró Quesada family was the most powerful at that time.
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El Comercio (Peru)
El Comercio is a Peruvian newspaper based in Lima. Founded in 1839, it is the oldest newspaper in Peru and one of the oldest Spanish-language papers in the world. It has a daily circulation of more than 120,000. It is considered a newspaper of record and one of the most influential media in Peru.
El Comercio began as a commercial, political and literary newspaper. Its first publication was on Saturday, May 4, 1839 by José Manuel Amunátegui y Muñoz (Chile, June 3, 1802 — Lima October 21, 1886) and Alejandro Villota (Buenos Aires, 1803 — Paris, February 20, 1861). It was originally a one-sheet afternoon newspaper printed on both sides in tabloid format. The price of the first edition was one silver real. Its motto was "Order, freedom, knowledge." In total there were ten people who prepared the first issue. Printing was made on a handlebar "Scott" flatbed press, powered by a mule-driven winch.
Its first headquarters was the Casa de la Pila, located at Calle del Arzobispo No. 147 (current block 2 of Jr. Junín). Twenty-four days later it moved to Calle de San Pedro No. 63 (current block 3 of the Jr. Ucayali), both in the Cercado de Lima.
On August 9, 1839, the diary was published with four pages. Also in that month, its morning edition was launched and its afternoon edition was renamed from vespertina to de la tarde, remaining as such for a little more than 120 years. At the end of 1841, the newspaper moved to a farm located on the corner formed by the streets of San Antonio and La Rifa. Seventy-eight years later, this old house was demolished to make way for the new location on the corner of the current Lampa and Santa Rosa streets in the historic centre of Lima. In 1855, he acquired his first "Marinoni" reaction press, which was powered by steam and produced just over a thousand copies per hour.
On January 1, 1867, José Antonio Miró Quesada (Panama City, January 15, 1845 — Lima, October 20, 1930) began working at the newspaper as a correspondent in Callao at the age of twenty-two. In 1875, Manuel Amunátegui gave control of the newspaper to Luis Carranza Ayarza and José Antonio Miró Quesada, who formed the company Carranza, Miró Quesada y Compañía. They established in the act of incorporation that, after the death of the first of them, the surviving partner could purchase the company's shares without the family of the deceased having any other right than to receive the respective financial compensation.
Between January 16, 1880 and October 23, 1884, El Comercio stopped publishing as a consequence of the closure ordered by Nicolás de Piérola and the subsequent occupation of Lima by the Chilean Army during the War of the Pacific.
After Carranza's death in 1898, Miró Quesada acquired the shares and since then the Miró Quesada family has controlled the newspaper.
At the beginning of the 20th century, El Comercio would become the most influential newspaper in the country, whose Miró Quesada family was the most powerful at that time.