Opinión is a newspaper published in Cochabamba, Bolivia.[1] Founded in January 1985, as the information arm of the COBOCE cooperative;[2] said entity was still its parent company in 2025.[3] Its founder and former director is Edwin Tapia Frontanilla.[2]
History
editIn 2015, its director was Federico Sabat,[2] and in 2025, the director is Brenda Molina.[4]
In 2019, Opinión suffered threats when it published a news item about a bomb explosion in a shopping mall; if the news item was not suppressed, it would be subject to another even bigger bomb.[5]
In 2020 Opinión declared to the Plurinational Electoral Organ to be of national circulation.[6] In 2024, the newspaper was a member of the Bolivian National Press Association; the treasurer of the Association was a representative of the newspaper.[7]
In 2025 a labor dispute had taken Opinión to court,[8] shortly after the newspaper celebrated its 40th anniversary.[4]
References
edit- ↑ "Periódicos diarios de Bolivia" [Bolivian daily newspapers]. Prensa Escrita. Retrieved 26 July 2012.
- 1 2 3 "Periódico Opinión de Cochabamba conmemora 30 años de labor periodística" [Periódico Opinión de Cochabamba commemorates 30 years of journalistic work]. Agencia de Noticias Fides. January 11, 2015. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- ↑ "Solidaridad con periodistas de opinión impagos hace siete meses" [Solidarity with unpaid opinion journalists seven months ago]. Cabildeo Digital. March 14, 2025. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- 1 2 "Opinión celebró sus 40 años con el compromiso de seguir informando" [Opinión celebrated its 40th anniversary with a commitment to continue reporting]. Los Tiempos. February 2, 2025. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- ↑ "Amenazan a diario Opinión con un atentado por publicar una noticia" [Opinión newspaper threatened with an attack for publishing a news item]. Asociación Nacional de la Prensa de Bolivia. January 23, 2019. Archived from the original on October 21, 2019. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- ↑ "Tarifario" (PDF). Plurinational Electoral Organ.
- ↑ "La ANP" [The ANP]. Asociación Nacional de la Prensa de Bolivia. 2023. Archived from the original on September 9, 2023. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
- ↑ "Trabajadores del diario Opinión, en emergencia por impago de salarios de más de siete meses". Correo del Sur. March 13, 2025. Retrieved March 16, 2025.
External links
edit- Official website
(in Spanish)