History

El Mundo was founded in 1919 by Romualdo Real.

In 1929, former corrector-turned-administrator Angel Ramos

Angel Ramos (industrialist)

Angel Ramos was the founder of Telemundo, the second largest Spanish-language television network in the United States.-Early years:...

 and journalist José Coll Vidal, bought the newspaper when Real retired. In 1946 Ramos was the sole owner of the newspaper.

Acquisitions

"El Mundo" acquired WKAQ AM

WKAQ (AM)

WKAQ is a radio station in San Juan, Puerto Rico that broadcasts on 580 kHz with a Spanish language talk radio format. The station is currently owned by Univision Radio. Its programming is repeated on WUKQ, which broadcasts on 1420 kHz in Ponce, and WYEL which broadcasts on 600 kHz in Mayagüez...

, the oldest radio station on the island, and later added WKAQ-TV

WKAQ-TV

WKAQ-TV is a full-power television station located in San Juan, Puerto Rico transmitting over digital 2.1. The station is owned and operated by NBCUniversal and is branded simply as Telemundo....

 channel 2. While El Mundo also established WKAQ-FM

WKAQ-FM

WKAQ-FM along with it satellite WUKQ-FM are a pair of radio stations in Puerto Rico broadcasting a contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to San Juan, Puerto Rico, WKAQ-FM serves the eastern half of the island while WUKQ, licensed to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, serves the western half...

, it is unknown if the current station at 104.7 MHz was part of the operation in the Ramos days. The paper's radio operations were owned by "El Mundo Broadcasting", and the television station was owned by Telemundo

Telemundo

Telemundo is an American television network that broadcasts in Spanish. The network is the second-largest Spanish-language content producer in the world, and the second-largest Spanish-language network in the United States, behind Univision....

; the Telemundo name would later be used by a mainland group of stations for the namesake Telemundo network now owned by NBC Universal

NBC Universal

NBCUniversal Media, LLC is a media and entertainment company engaged in the production and marketing of entertainment, news, and information products and services to a global customer base...

, which also owns WKAQ-TV.

Angel Ramos died in 1960. Upon his death, wife - Argentina S. Hills - took over the reins of Ramos' enterprise.

Demise

El Mundo closed in 1986, following an extremely contentious mid seventies labor strike. Printing plates were shipped out from the El Mundo building by helicopter. A chopper was destroyed by a pipe bomb and people in the air and on the ground were killed. El Mundo returned briefly during the late 1980s, but soon closed.

Contributors

• Hector Campos-Parsi
  Héctor Campos-Parsi
  Héctor Campos-Parsi was a Puerto Rican composer. He studied at the New England Conservatory with Francis Judd Cooke, he also studied with Paul Hindemith. In Tanglewood he studied with Oliver Messiaen and Aaron Copland and in France with Nadia Boulanger.-Early years:Héctor Campos-Parsi was born in...
  
  
• Eliseo Combas Guerra-reporter and political columnist
• Francisco Hernández Negrón-sportswriter
• Alex W. Maldonado-editor
• Kenneth McClintock
  Kenneth McClintock
  Kenneth D. McClintock-Hernández is the current Secretary of State of Puerto Rico. Mr. McClintock served as co-chair of Hillary Clinton presidential campaign's National Hispanic Leadership Council in 2008, co-chaired Clinton's successful Puerto Rico primary campaign that year and served as the...
  
  -columnist
• Mayra Montero
  Mayra Montero
  -Biography:Montero was born in Havana, Cuba in 1952. She is the daughter of Manuel Montero, a very successful Cuban comedic writer and actor who made his career in both Cuba and Puerto Rico, where he and his family relocated when Mayra was a young girl. Manuel, whose pen name was "Membrillo",...
  
  -editorial page editor
• Luis Pales Matos
  Luis Palés Matos
  Luis Palés Matos was a Puerto Rican poet who is credited with creating the poetry genre known as Afro-Antillano.-Early years:...
  
  
• Rafael Pont Flores
  Rafael Pont Flores
  Rafael Pont Flores was an educator, sportsman and journalist. He was from the town of Aibonito, Puerto Rico. He directed the "Escuela del Departamento de Instrucción Pública" Magazine. As a sport chronicler he was honored by being included in the Hall of the Immortals of the Crónica Deportiva en...
  
  -sportswriter
• Miguel Santín-political columnist