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5 unusual facts about El Nacional


Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

As with many of the core members of the Barranquilla Group, Cepeda Samudio began his career as a journalist, writing first, in August 1947, for El Nacional, where his first short stories were also published.

Álvaro Delgado

Delgado studied journalism at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and has worked in the Mexican national newspapers El Nacional, El Universal, and El Financiero, as well as the political newsmagazine Proceso.

Carlos Alfredo D'Amico

D'Amico became a lawyer and began his political career in his youth, being a supporter of Adolfo Alsina and contributor to El Nacional.

Gilberto Bosques Saldívar

In 1938, he was the director of the government owned newspaper, El Nacional.

Hildebrando Fuentes

For some years he held the chair of metaphysics, statistics, and finance at the University of San Marcos, while at various times he was the editor of such prominent publications as El Nacional, El Diario, La Reconstitución, El Perú, and La Revista Militar y Navel.


Angel Falls

In 18 November 1955, independence day of Latvia he announced to Venezuelan newspaper El Nacional that this stream without any known local name shall be called after Latvian river - Gauja.

Carlos Sevilla

Carlos Edmundo Sevilla Dalgo (born August 26, 1950 in Atuntaqui, Imbabura) in an Ecuadorian former football player and manager of El Nacional.

Juan Triviño

He is recently signed with El Nacional, and also played for the Ecuadorian national team between 2004 and 2005.

La barra del Rojo

In 2004 in Quito, Ecuador, the barra brava fought the Ecuadorian police during a Copa Libertadores match between El Nacional and Independente in the Atahualpa stadium.

Paul Arcelin

He has written for such well-known newspapers as El Nacional of Caracas, Venezuela, El Tiempo (Bogotá, Colombia) and the Observateur of Haiti.

Sixto Vizuete

Sixto Rafael Vizuete Toapanta (born January 13, 1961 in Guaytacama, Latacunga) is the Ecuadorian football manager who manages El Nacional in the Ecuadorian Serie A.


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Alberto Assa

In his weekly column El Rincón de Casandra (Cassandra’s Corner) (he adopted the pseudonym in an allusion to the priestess of the Greek Mythology), published in the El Nacional, del Caribe and El Heraldo newspapers, he defended and promoted culture and education in Barranquilla for more than 40 years.

Álvaro Cepeda Samudio

He was also the Colombian bureau chief for Sporting News, based out of St. Lewis, and ultimately secured his position as one of his country's preeminent journalists and editors by becoming the editor-in-chief first of El Nacional and later of the 'Diario del Caribe.