La Nación (Buenos Aires)
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Cover to #1, 1 Jan 1870.
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid on weekdays, broadsheet on weekends |
| Owner(s) | Mitre Family |
| Publisher | Bartolomé Mitre |
| Founded | January 4, 1870 |
| Political alignment | Centre-Right, Economic liberalism |
| Language | Spanish |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Circulation | 160,000 |
| Website | lanacion.com.ar |
La Nación (English: The Nation) is an Argentine daily newspaper. As the country's leading conservative paper, La Nación's main competitor is the centrist Clarín.
The paper was founded on January 4, 1870 (replacing the former publication Nación Argentina), by former Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre and associates. Until 1914, the managing editor was José Luis Murature, Foreign Minister of Argentina from 1914-1916. Enjoying Latin America's largest readership until the 1930s, its daily circulation averaged around 350,000, and exceeded only by Crítica, a Buenos Aires tabloid. The 1945 launch of Clarín created a new rival, and following the 1962 closure of Crítica, and the 1975 suspension of Crónica, La Nación secured its position as the chief market rival of Clarín.
Some of the most famous writers in the Spanish-speaking world: José Martí, Miguel de Unamuno, Eduardo Mallea, José Ortega y Gasset, Rubén Darío, Alfonso Reyes, Jorge Luis Borges, Mario Vargas Llosa and Manuel Mujica Láinez have all appeared regularly in its columns.
Originally published in Bartolomé Mitre's home (today, the Museo Mitre), its offices were moved a number of times until, in 1929, a Plateresque headquarters on Florida Street was inaugurated. The publishing group today is headquartered in the Bouchard Plaza Tower, a 26-story Post-modern office building developed between 2000 and 2004 over the news daily's existing, six-story building.
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