Thursday, October 7, 2010

El Universal!

Newspaper Description:
El Universal, a major Mexican newspaper, was first started in Santiago de Queretaro in 1916 to report on the end of the Mexican revolution and the creation/beginning of their new constitution. This widely read newspaper, founded by Felic Palavicini and Emilio Rabasa, has over 300,000 readers. It's ranked the second most visited news site in mexico with more then 3,000,000 visitors per month! The current president of El Universal (and CEO) is Juan Francisco Ealy Ortiz, and the paper employs several renown journalists including: Katia D'artigues and Raymundo Riva Palacio.

Article #1:
(Because I haven't been able to get the Mexican edition of "El Universal" in English, this article comes from the Venezuelan version of the paper...)

VENEZUELA'S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE UP TO 9.6 PERCENT IN AUGUST:
As the economy drops in Venezuela, the unemployment rate goes up. In August, the unemployment rate was measured and found to have gone up 1.6 percent since it was last measured exactly a year earlier. "Though Venezuela has been hit by the global economic crisis, the jobless rate is significantly lower then that of other countries who are also struggling through the tough economic times," says Elias Eljuri, president of the National Statistics Institute (INE)

(Visit Adriana's blog for the other two articles...)

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