El Siglo (Panama) Explained
| El Siglo |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Tabloid[1] |
| Editor: | Eduardo Antonio Quirós |
| Chiefeditor: | Juan Luis Correa |
| Newseditor: | Magaly Montilla and Eliezer Navarro |
| Opeditor: | Avenabet Mercado |
| Sportseditor: | Joel Gonzalez |
| Photoeditor: | Didier Magallón |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Headquarters: | Calle Alejandro A. Duque G., 0815-00507, Zona 4, Panama |
| Website: | (in Spanish) |
El Siglo ("The Century") is a Spanish language daily newspaper published in Panama. It was founded on 9 January 1985 and as of 2010 had the largest circulation of any Panamanian newspaper.[2]
In 1990, after the fall of military ruler Manuel Noriega in the United States invasion of Panama, the paper offered a prize for the best essays that "explain and detail the criminal acts of the deposed tyrant (Noriega) and his followers."[3]
On December 10, 1998, Siglo reporter Carlos Singares was sentenced to 20 months' imprisonment for defamation for a 1993 article he had written about former president Ernesto Pérez Balladares, accusing him of helping to move money out of Panama for former military ruler Omar Torrijos.[4]
In May 2000, Attorney General José Antonio Sossa attempted to jail Singares for alleging that he had pressured journalists, but reversed himself after criticism by President Mireya Moscoso; the following month, Sossa did jail Singares for eight days without trial for reporting in an article that Sossa had visited underage prostitutes.[5] [6]
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Notes and References
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-19888939 Panama profile - Media
- Web site: Pérez . Gilberto . Récord de El Siglo: vende 66,618 diarios en un día . Spanish . Record of the "El Siglo": 66,618 newspapers sells in one day . 16 September 2010 . El Siglo Digital . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100921065821/http://www.elsiglo.com/mensual/2010/09/16/contenido/280199.asp . 2010-09-21 .
- News: Reuters . Prize Offered for Noriega Exposes . September 16, 1990 . Los Angeles Times . 5 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305210014/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-16/news/mn-1253_1_manuel-a-noriega . 29 August 2012 . live .
- Web site: Another jail sentence for Singares . August 3, 2000 . The Committee to Protect Journalists . 3 September 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120903180846/http://cpj.org/2000/03/another-jail-sentence-for-singares.php . 29 August 2012 . dead .
- Web site: Panama . 2000 . The Committee to Protect Journalists . September 4, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120904025302/https://cpj.org/attacks00/americas00/Panama.html . August 29, 2012 . dead .
- Web site: Bad News: Panama Determined to Squelch Press Freedom . August 9, 2000 . The Houston Chronicle . May 26, 2024 . https://archive.today/20240526050614/https://www.webcitation.org/6AHYQO2dc?url=http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl/2000_3234043/bad-news-panama-determined-to-squelch-press-freedo.html . August 29, 2012 . dead .
