'''''El Vocero de Puerto Rico''''' is a [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] free newspaper that is published in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]]. Published since 1974, ''El Vocero'' was at first the third of the four largest Puerto Rico newspapers, trailing ''[[El Mundo (Puerto Rico)|El Mundo]]'' and ''[[El Nuevo Día]]'' and leading ''[[El Reportero (Puerto Rican Newspaper)|El Reportero]]'' and ''[[The San Juan Star]]'' in sales. With the temporary demise in the late 1980s of ''El Mundo'', ''El Vocero'' became even more popular, becoming the island's largest newspaper by 1994.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1994-08-06_127_32/page/36/mode/2up|title = Editor & Publisher 1994-08-06: Vol 127 Iss 32|date = 6 August 1994|publisher = Duncan McIntosh}}</ref> From 1985 to 2013 it was owned by Caribbean International News Corp.<ref name="elvocero.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.elvocero.com/actualidad/historia-de-el-vocero/article_76daf810-72f9-11e7-9c76-335973ecd547.html|title = Historia de EL VOCERO}}</ref> The owners of Caribbean International News Corp, and therefore owners of ''El Vocero'', were Elliot Stein, I. Martin Pompadur and The Henry Crown Co.<ref name="Office 2016 p. 1589">{{cite book | last=Office | first=U.S.G.P. | title=Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, Volume 357, June 29, 2011 Through January 3, 2012 | publisher=United States Govt Printing Office | issue=v. 357 | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-16-093036-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjphfzwllBIC&pg=PA1589 | access-date=4 February 2020 | page=1589}}</ref>

 

 

In addition to its regular news section, ''El Vocero'' also has business, entertainment, sports, and travel sections.

 

 

==First free newspaper==

The newspaper has been characterized as propaganda for the [[New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico|New Progressive Party]] since ''El Vocero'' allegedly received funds from the 2009 to 2013 NPP-controlled central government.<ref>{{cite news|title=$20 Million Public Funds for ''Vocero'' to be New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico Propaganda Arm|newspaper=San Juan Star|date=August 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Acosta Lespier|first=Ivonne|title=Se confirma lo de "El Vocero"|url=http://desahogoboricua.blogspot.com/2012/08/se-confirma-lo-de-el-vocero.html|work=Sin Mordazas|date=9 August 2012}}</ref> According to an investigation by ''El Vocero''{{'}}s main competitor, the newspaper ''[[El Nuevo Día]]'', the company has received more than $24.9 million, even when it had a debt of $21,141,200 in taxes.<ref>{{cite news|last=Díaz Román|first=Miguel|title=Dinero público financia El Vocero|url=http://www.elnuevodia.com/dineropublicofinanciaelvocero-1365586.html|access-date=October 17, 2012|newspaper=El Nuevo Día|date=October 17, 2012}}</ref> ''El Vocero''{{'}}s editor-in-chief responded by stating that neither the newspaper nor its parent company have received government funds through any means, and dismissed ''El Nuevo Día'''s allegations as part of a series of attacks driven by the newspaper's new-found success as a free publication.<ref>{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Peter|title=A la sombra del mantengo: los Ferré Rangel|url=http://www.vocero.com/a-la-sombra-del-mantengo-dinero-publico-financia-al-grupo-ferre-rangel/|access-date=October 17, 2012|newspaper=El Vocero|date=October 17, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019192651/http://www.vocero.com/a-la-sombra-del-mantengo-dinero-publico-financia-al-grupo-ferre-rangel/|archive-date=October 19, 2012}}</ref>

 

 

In 2013, a group of businessmen from Puerto Rico acquired the rights to the name of the publication EL VOCERO and took it upon themselves to keep the publication alive. On the first of December of that same year, the newspaper was re-launched with a new editorial philosophy and a new design. The daily newspaper EL VOCERO was originally founded in 1974 and, due to it being part of a foreign investment fund, was managed under a different structure.

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