Los Tiempos Explained

Los Tiempos
Type:Daily newspaper
Format:Berliner
Founder:Demetrio Canelas
Language:Spanish
Headquarters:Cochabamba, Bolivia
Circulation:National

Los Tiempos (Spanish; Castilian: The Times) is a newspaper published in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[1] By 2013, its circulation reached 45,000 copies.[2]

Since October 2017, the newspaper is published in Berliner. Prior to this, the newspaper was a broadsheet.[3]

History

Los Tiempos was founded on 16 September 1943 by Demetrio Canelas, who had already founded the newspaper La Patria in Oruro in 1919.[4] He was assaulted and practically destroyed by a mob of militants of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement on 9 November 1953,[5] resuming its publications on 19 July 1967 with the premiere of a rotary offset.[6]

On 17 September 1989, it inaugurated its modern building, and on 4 September 1996, it opened its website.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Periódicos diarios de Bolivia. Prensa Escrita. 26 July 2012. es.
  2. Web site: Los Tiempos: A 70 años de su primera publicación. La Patria. 17 September 2013. 31 July 2016. es.
  3. News: Tras 74 años "estándar" Los Tiempos se transforma a una dimensión "berlinés". 11 October 2017. Los Tiempos. 7 December 2017. es.
  4. Book: ¿Pitaq kaypi kamachiq?: las estructuras de poder en Cochabamba, 1940-2006. Gordillo. José M.. Rivera P.. Alberto. Sulcata Guzmán. Ana E.. 2007. 978-99954-32-21-8. 70. es.
  5. Book: Knudson, Jerry W.. Roots of Revolution: The Press and Social Change in Latin America. registration. University Press of America. University Press of America. University Press of America. 2009. 40. 9780761848240.
  6. News: Staff Los Tiempos. Los Tiempos. 31 July 2016.
  7. Web site: Los Tiempos 71 años. 16 September 2014. 31 July 2016. es.