Brecha (newspaper)

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Brecha
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Type Weekly newspaper
Format Tabloid
Founder(s) Hugo Alfaro
Founded1985
Political alignmentIndependent left
LanguageSpanish
Headquarters Montevideo, Uruguay
Website http://www.brecha.com.uy

Brecha is a Uruguayan weekly newspaper.

History

Founded in 1985 by Hugo Alfaro [1] and other journalists that had started their careers at Marcha under the influence of Carlos Quijano. As Quijano had died in 1984 in exile, they decided to take a new name, and try to continue with the original idea: an independent leftist weekly newspaper. [2]

Together with Búsqueda , it is considered one of the two most influential political weekly newspapers in Uruguay. [3]

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References

  1. "Hugo Alfaro". letras-uruguay.espaciolatino.com. Retrieved 2020-08-28.
  2. Alfaro, Hugo (1994). Por la vereda del sol (in Spanish). Montevideo: Ediciones de Brecha. pp. 222–231.
  3. "Information about Uruguay" (in German). Auswärtiges Amt . Retrieved 24 Nov 2012.