El Imparcial


El Imparcial, founded in 1918, was a Puerto Rican newspaper. It circulated daily, except Sundays. Its complete name was El Imparcial: El diario ilustrado de Puerto Rico.
El Imparcial was given new life in 1933 under the leadership of Antonio Ayuso Valdivieso. In the 1970s Miguel A. García Méndez bought the newspaper. The headquarters of the newspaper was destroyed by arson in an act of political sabotage. The paper somewhat recovered and kept running for a short time after that with only one third employees. Eventually, the government expropriated the building where it was located. The last known issue of the paper is dated 28 February 1973. However, La Casa de la Herencia Cultural Puertorriqueña in New York City has editions from February 22 to March 21, 1979. After its demise, many of its reporters, photojournalists and editors went on to form part of the then newly created El Vocero newspaper, which many in Puerto Rico consider its successor.

Contributing writers

Among the more prominent journalists with El Imparcial were Luis Pales Matos, Angel Rivero Mendez, Hector Campos Parsi, Rafael Pont Flores, and Luis Rechani Agrait. Other contributors were Carmen Mirabal, Aida Zorrilla, Miguel Angel Yumet, Luis Colón, and Millie Cappalli Arango.

Circulation

From 1964-65, its Monday thru Saturday average daily circulation was 51,119.