El Nuevo Herald

El Nuevo Herald is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in the United States, which appears in Miami, Florida. It is the sister publication of the English The Miami Herald. Both are part of the media group The McClatchy Company. El Nuevo Herald is according to La Opinión in Los Angeles, the second largest Spanish-language daily newspaper in the United States, but is read also in the countries of Latin America, where it has because of its often exclusive reporting a strong influence on policy discussions.

History

In 1975, the Miami Herald a site in Spanish to publish first started with it, every day. In 1976, from a 16- page supplement under the name El Herald. This supplement contained almost exclusively translations of English-language article from the Miami Herald. During this time, El Herald could only be purchased together with the English version, which prevented independent development of the leaf. In particular, the left - liberal editorial policy of the Miami Herald and hence the Spanish-language translation in the supplement came in the Cuban exile community of South Florida repeated massive resistance. The newspaper was sometimes even accused of particularly anti-communist Cuban exiles a Castro- friendly line.

In 1987, the newspaper has been extended under Robert Suárez de Cardenas to a few pages and now settled as El Nuevo Herald the mother leaf. The editorial policy has been amended slightly to the right in order to meet the expectations of Cuban exiles. Nevertheless, it was in 1992 violently attacked by the chairman of the influential Cuban American National Foundation, Jorge Mas Canosa and called antikubanisch. Under the slogan " Yo no creo en el Herald " ( German: " I do not think the Herald " ), he launched a campaign against the newspaper, which then in the Miami area lost many readers. During this time, the newspaper stalls of Vandals were destroyed. Nevertheless, El Nuevo Herald was the most widely read Spanish-language newspaper in the United States.

In 1994, the Cuban-born editor of the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Día, Carlos M. Castañeda, the post of chief editor at Nuevo Herald offered. However, this declined with the remark that the editors of the Nuevo Herald is like the Communist Party of Bulgaria ( " Miren, este el Partido Comunista it periódico como de Bulgaria "). 1995 left the former editor in chief Álvaro Vargas Llosa because of an internal dispute, the newspaper, and the Puerto Ricans Alberto Ibargüen was appointed as his successor. This introduced a new style, with which the newspaper Boulevard opened slightly. In blumigerer language partly sensational journalism now operated what was in stark contrast to the previous rigid seriousness of the sheet.

In 1998, the first time the separate sale of the El Nuevo Herald was started. Alberto Ibargüen moved to the chief editor of the English-language Miami Herald and this time Carlos M. Castañeda, chief editor of the newly independent Spanish-language sister leaf to be accepted. He started the new sheet with the headline " ¡ bochorno! " ( German: " shame, embarrassment " ), with whom he criticized the treatment of Balseros, the refugees on rafts to Florida Cubans, by the U.S. Coast Guard. Castañeda now began to give a new orientation and the newspaper. From a local paper for the Cuban exile community in Florida to El Nuevo Herald should develop into a leading daily newspaper for all of Latin America and the Caribbean. In July 1998, the newspaper caused an international stir when she published an alleged testimony of refugees from Cuba doctor Elizabeth Trujillo Izquierdo, who claimed that Fidel Castro was suffering from a serious illness that also affects his brain, which turned out to be a duck. As part of the highly polarizing Elian affair, the newspaper continued in the years 1999 and 2000, massive for the whereabouts of six year olds in the U.S., while the sister publication Miami Herald reported neutral and the decision of the courts accepted.

In 2002 died Castañeda, the new Chief Editor was Humberto Castelló, also a native Cuban who had previously worked as a journalist for El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico and at the newspaper Uno in Argentina. In the same year the newspaper was also awarded by the Spanish daily El País prestigious Ortega y Gasset Prize for Journalism.

In 2006 the newspaper was involved in a scandal when it became known that some of their journalists from Radio and TV Martí money had assumed a U.S. government station, Radio Free Europe sends similar to earlier from Miami to Cuba and by the local government boycotted as a propaganda station. This affair damaged the reputation of the newspaper as an independent journal.

In 2007, Colombia was the correspondent of the newspaper, Gonzalo Guillén, anonymous threats after he made ​​critical research on President Álvaro Uribe. He then left the country.

Importance today

El Nuevo Herald, with a circulation of 58 573 pieces of work days, the second- largest Spanish- language daily newspaper in the U.S., while the Sunday edition of 75 990 copies even comes first. The printed in broadsheet format newspaper includes daily about 80 pages. About 70 % of buyers are subscribers. However, a large part of the readership reached the online edition of the newspaper outside the United States. Especially in the Spanish-speaking countries of Central America and the Caribbean, El Nuevo Herald is considered to be influential and is often quoted by the local media, especially in Cuba, Colombia and Venezuela. In contrast, the currently highest circulation Spanish-language newspaper in the United States, La Opinión in Los Angeles, been received in foreign countries, especially in Mexico.

Well-known writers from El Nuevo Herald are the columnist and foreign policy expert Andrés Oppenheimer, the Colombian Aufdeckerjournalist Gerardo Reyes, the sports journalist Jorge Ebro, but even so quirky personalities such as the Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado, who created the horoscopes.

The attitude on the part of pro-government Cuban media against El Nuevo Herald varies between neutral reference and fierce criticism. So the newspaper was accused about their attitude to the Miami Five by Cuba, or their critical position to Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. When the newspaper in May 2006, referring claimed to Forbes Magazine, Fidel Castro possess a personal fortune of 900 million U.S. dollars, the Nuevo Herald called this literally: " El Nuevo Herald, the libelous newspaper of the terrorist mafia in Miami " ( German: " slanderous newspaper of the terrorists in Miami Mafia ").

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