El Nuevo Diario is a Nicaraguan newspaper, with offices in the capital Managua. El Nuevo Diario was cofounded in 1980 by a breakaway group of employees of La Prensa sympathetic to the Sandinista cause, that included 80 percent of the staff including the editor, Xavier Chamorro Cardenal and Danilo Aguirre Solís who opposed the new line of the journal. As of 2006, El Nuevo Diario is one of the two major newspapers in Nicaragua, the other one is La Prensa.