Fidel Cano Gutiérrez

Fidel Cano Gutiérrez (San Pedro de los Milagros, Antioquia, 1854 – Medellín, 1919) was a Colombian journalist, founder of "El Espectador", Colombia's oldest newspaper.

Cano attended high school at Colegio de Jesús in Medellín, then studied at the Colegio del Estado, which would become University of Antioquia. He worked at "La Palestra", a literary newspaper, en 1872. Five years later he would become the editor of "La Idea". In 1879 he moved to Medellín. On 22 March 1887 he founded "El Espectador", whose circulation was suspended 6 times by the conservative government, which considered it as "subversive". Cano, as the editor, was jailed several times.

Cano also was director of the Official Printing Office, member and president of the Academia Antioqueña de Historia, deputy to the Antioquia Department Assembly, Senator, and principal of the Colegio Central of the University of Antioquia.

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*es [http://www.lablaa.org/blaavirtual/biografias/canofide.htm Biografía de Fidel Cano en la Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango]