Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala
Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala (28 February 1915, Puerto Cabello - 25 April 1996) was the head of Venezuela's Cadena Capriles media group.
Capriles launched Últimas Noticias in 1941, after the pro-freedom measures implemented by Venezuelan President Medina Angarita. On 3 February 1958, shortly after the end of the dictatorship of Marcos Pérez Jiménez on 23 January 1958, Capriles launched El Mundo, which for most of its existence was the only Venezuelan evening newspaper.
According to Michael Coppedge, in 1968 a deal was struck by Copei on behalf of Rafael Caldera, promising Miguel Angel Capriles a Senate seat and the right to designate eleven Congressional candidates, in exchange for favourable coverage in the Venezuelan presidential election, 1968.[1] Capriles was elected to the Venezuelan Senate in 1968 on COPEI's party list and seven Capriles nominees were elected to the Venezuelan Chamber of Deputies, including the editor of El Mundo, Pedro Ramon Romero.[2] Capriles Ayala's brother, the journalist and historian Carlos Capriles Ayala, was named Ambassador to Spain.[3]
Books
- Memorias de la inconformidad, 1973
- Siempre habrá Venezuela, Editorial Domingo Fuentes, 1985
References
- ↑ Coppedge, Michael (1994), Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp35-36
- ↑ St Petersburg Times, 4 December 1968, "Tanks Guard Jittery Caracas After Election"
- ↑ (Spanish) EFE, La Vanguardia, 5 July 1969, "El nuevo embajador de Venezuela en Espana, don Carlos Capriles, define los propositos de su alta mision"