Overview
- Residents gathered Saturday at the Ovidio Lagos statue for floral offerings and brief remarks, in an event led by Volver a Rosario with participation from relatives of the founder and former staff.
- The newspaper, founded on November 15, 1867, is recognized as Argentina’s oldest daily still in circulation.
- Ovidio Lagos created the paper with Eudoro Carrasco, aided by funding from Justo José de Urquiza to advocate making Rosario the national capital, debuting with four pages and 200 copies from a Puerto 171 press.
- Key milestones include the 1889 move to Sarmiento 763 with a Marinoni press, the adoption of photocomposition in 1978, the Capitel phone news service in 1994, and the website launch on November 16, 2000.
- The institution’s history features family stewardship and political turbulence, including Nora Lagos’s 1953–1955 tenure and removal after the 1955 coup, recurrent censorship, and a reported assassination attempt that prompted Lagos’s temporary move to Buenos Aires.