El Comercio

Description: A daily newspaper published in Managua from July 1896 to May 1933, in the printing house “Rojas” and later in the printing house “El Comercio”. Its editor was José María Castrillo. It consisted of four pages and it was published in broadsheet format. “El Comercio” was the first Nicaraguan newspaper to reach 10,000 published issues (Source: Jorge Eduardo Arellano. Catálogo de periódicos y revistas de Nicaragua (1830-1930). Managua: Instituto Nicaragüense de Cultura, 1992). Extent of original material: 20 series.