Fidel Cano Gutiérrez

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Cano and the second or maternal family name is Gutiérrez.
Fidel Cano Gutiérrez
Born

(1854-04-17)April 17, 1854
San Pedro, Antioquia,

Republic of New Granada
Died January 15, 1919(1919-01-15) (aged 64)
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Occupation Journalist, politician
Notable credit(s) El Espectador
Founder and Director
(18871917)
Religion Roman Catholic
Spouse(s) Helena Villegas

Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (San Pedro, Antioquia, 1854 Medellín, 1919) was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.

Cano attended high school at Colegio de Jesús in Medellín, then studied at the Colegio del Estado, which would become University of Antioquia. He worked at La Palestra, a literary newspaper, en 1872. Five years later he would become the editor of La Idea. In 1879 he moved to Medellín. On 22 March 1887 he founded El Espectador, whose circulation was suspended 6 times by the conservative government, which considered it as "subversive". Cano, as the editor, was jailed several times.

Cano also was director of the Official Printing Office, member and president of the Academia Antioqueña de Historia, deputy to the Antioquia Department Assembly, Senator, and principal of the Colegio Central of the University of Antioquia.

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