A Brief History of EL ARGENTINO-MercoSur
Published since 1987

The newspaper EL ARGENTINO-MercoSur came to life in April 1987 due to the need of Argentinean community in Florida to feel a closer connection to its roots.  The main goal of the newspaper was to establish a bridge between the Argentina and its citizens living overseas.

Through the years the Argentinean community residing across the USA were growing in numbers with the arrival of new immigrants. Through this newspaper, not only the immigrants, but their children and even their grandchildren had a monthly link to their mother land.

In order to spread news of the newspaper activities throughout the USA, and to show concern for the country, the paper organized business delegations from Argentina and was actively involved in community functions.

Since 1992,the strength of the newspaper’s distributions grew after acquiring its own news racks, especially in the Miami-Dade area. This allowed not only Argentinean readers, but readers from other Latin America countries, and tourists, to be familiar with the newspaper and its news.

In 1994,coinciding with the America’s Summit Conference, the newspaper introduced its English Section, resulting in it being one of the few bilingual newspapers in the community. This allowed a more effective contact with the English speaking world. At the same time, the paper changed its size to a broadsheet, as it currently produced.

In 1996,in order to follow the hemispheric changes of the time, the newspaper introduced its second section called MercoSur, which covered information about the countries that are members of the MercoSur group: Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay. At this year with begin to be the only Argentinean newspaper with certification and paid advertising for Miami-Dade County.

At this present moment EL ARGENTINO-MercoSur reaches many places in the United States namely New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Orlando, Tampa, Puerto Rico and, of course, South Florida.

The newspaper has been supported by companies like American, United, LAB, Aerolíneas Argentinas, Western Union and AT&T, for more than 14 years and certified by Miami-Dade County

At the turn of the millennium in 1999,the newspaper entered the Internet information superhighway. This step has helped to achieve the biggest desire of this newspaper, to be a link between all the Argentineans, in any place in the world they may be.

On the website www.elargentino.com you can read news every month, as well as any other person of other nationalities that is interested in MercoSur and Argentinean events and products on offer.