EL TIEMPO

El Tiempo is a Colombian newspaper founded on January 30, 1911, by Alfonso Villegas Restrepo . It is currently the daily newspaper with the largest circulation in Colombia and for seven years was practically the only one with national circulation, due to the crisis of its main competitor, El Espectador , which became a weekly in 2001 but returned to daily publication in 2008. El Tiempo is considered a leading newspaper in Colombia.

Its owner is the economic group led by Colombian businessman Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo ,  who bought out the shares of the Spanish Grupo Planeta in March 2012. Two months later, it was revealed that Sarmiento Angulo also acquired the shares of the minority shareholders: Abdón Espinosa Valderrama and members of the Santos family . The newspaper is the foundation of the media conglomerate known as El Tiempo Casa Editorial (ETCE).

According to the 2015 General Media Study , it had 3,515,548 readers across all its platforms, with an average of 969,713 readers of the print edition, Monday to Saturday  and 1,695,107 of the Sunday edition.