El Tiempo (Colombia)
El Tiempo (English: The Time) is the highest circulation daily newspaper in Colombia and the only non-tabloid daily with national distribution. As of 2004, it had an average weekday circulation of 314,000, rising to 453,000 for the Sunday edition.[1]
The newspaper was founded in 1911 by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo. In 1913 it was purchased by his son-in-law, Eduardo Santos Montejo. El Tiempo's main shareholder is the Santos family, as part of the media conglomerate Casa Editorial El Tiempo.
El Tiempo enjoys monopoly status in Colombian media as the only daily that circulates nationally, as most smaller dailies have limited distribution outside their own regions. El Espectador, El Tiempo's longtime rival, was reduced to a weekly publication following an internal financial crisis in 2001.
Several members of the Santos family who are also El Tiempo shareholders have participated in Colombian politics, including Eduardo Santos Montejo, who was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942. Also, most recently, Vicepresident Francisco Santos Calderón and Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos have served during President Álvaro Uribe's administration.
El Tiempo is published in six regional editions:
- Bogotá
- Caribe (Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Sincelejo, Riohacha and Valledupar)
- Medellín
- Café (Pereira, Manizales, Armenia)
- Cali (Cali, Popayán, Pasto)
- Region, for the remainder of the country.
On Sundays there are special sections. At least from 2 years ago every Sunday there is a special section with a weekly selection of articles from The New York Times, translated to Spanish and using the same pictures. El Tiempo is part of Grupo de Diarios América (America Newspaper Group), an organization of eleven leading newspapers from eleven Latin American countries.
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