El Carabobeño has been one of the most popular newspapers in the Central Region of Venezuela. The offices of the newspaper are located in Naguanagua, north of the city of Valencia in the state of Carabobo. Its main competitor in the area is Notitarde.
In 2016 it discontinued its print edition citing problems sourcing newsprint. It has continued online.
The newspaper was founded by Eladio Alemán Sucre on 1 September 1933 under the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez.[1][2] Eladio Alemán Sucre was forced into exile under the dictatorship, with the newspaper working under the area's best intellectuals, until Vicente Gómez's death in 1935.[1] In 1948, the newspaper was headquartered in the Ayacucho building and by 1955, the newspaper had begun printing in a more "standard" size after their printing press was updated.[1]
In 1976 after successfully growing, the newspaper moved into a new building on Soubrette Avenue in central Valencia. At the new facility, El Carabobeño purchased a new electronic system for processing that was one of the most advanced in Latin America at that period of time.[3]
In 1997, a newly built headquarters for El Carabobeño in Naguanagua, a city north of Venezuela, was inaugurated by President Rafael Caldera, who called the newspaper "an example for the Latin American Journalism".[3] The headquarters was designed by Marisol Alemán de López in a contemporary architecture, with the facility featuring an advanced electronic system, a museum on Venezuela's journalism, the original equipment used by the newspaper, two murals by Braulio Salazar as well as one auditorium and two convention halls at the Eladio Alemán Sucre Cultural Center.[3]
ベネズエラ国民に新聞を印刷し始めてから約83年が経った2016年3月17日、同紙は紙媒体での新聞の最終号を発行し、印刷物の使用を中止した。最終号の1面社説で、エル・カラボベニョ紙は、新聞用紙の配布を担当する政府機関が同紙に必要な資源を販売しようとしなかったと説明した。[ 4 ]メディア組織への資源提供を差し控える行為は、ボリバル政権下のベネズエラにおける検閲の一般的な慣行であった。 [ 5 ]
エル・カラボベーニョは1968年、1977年、1983年に全国ジャーナリズム賞を受賞し[ 2 ]、2009年には米州報道協会(IAPA)から「教育における新聞」部門で2009年ジャーナリズム優秀賞を受賞しました。