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 Los Tiempos building in Cochabamba. | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Berliner |
| Founder(s) | Demetrio Canelas |
| Founded | 16 September 1943 |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Cochabamba, Bolivia |
| Circulation | National |
| Website | www |
Los Tiempos (Spanish : 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]
Los Tiempos was founded on 16 September 1943 by Demetrio Canelas, [2] 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]
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