Opinión

Opinión is a newspaper published in Cochabamba, Bolivia.{{cite web |url=http://www.prensaescrita.com/america/bolivia.php |title=Periódicos diarios de Bolivia |trans-title=Bolivian daily newspapers |work=Prensa Escrita |access-date=26 July 2012}} Founded in January 1985, as the information arm of the Bolivian Cement, Industries and Services Cooperative (COBOCE Ltda.); said entity was still its parent company in 2025.{{cite news |date=March 14, 2025 |title=Solidaridad con periodistas de opinión impagos hace siete meses |url=https://www.cabildeodigital.com/2025/03/solidaridad-con-periodistas-de-opinion.html |trans-title=Solidarity with unpaid opinion journalists seven months ago |access-date=March 16, 2025|magazine=Cabildeo Digital}} Its founder and former director is Edwin Tapia Frontanilla.{{cite news |date=January 11, 2015 |title=Periódico Opinión de Cochabamba conmemora 30 años de labor periodística |url=https://www.noticiasfides.com/nacional/sociedad/periodico-opinion-de-cochabamba-conmemora-30-anos-de-labor-periodistica--349131-349115 |trans-title=Periódico Opinión de Cochabamba commemorates 30 years of journalistic work |access-date=March 16, 2025 |magazine=Agencia de Noticias Fides}}

History

In 2015, its director was Federico Sabat, and in 2025, the director is Brenda Molina.{{cite news |date=February 2, 2025 |title=Opinión celebró sus 40 años con el compromiso de seguir informando |url=https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/cochabamba/20250202/opinion-celebro-sus-40-anos-compromiso-seguir-informando |trans-title=Opinión celebrated its 40th anniversary with a commitment to continue reporting |access-date=March 16, 2025 |newspaper=Los Tiempos}}

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.{{cite web |date=January 23, 2019 |title=Amenazan a diario Opinión con un atentado por publicar una noticia |url=https://anp-bolivia.com/amenazan-a-diario-opinion-con-un-atentado-por-publicar-una-noticia/ |trans-title=Opinión newspaper threatened with an attack for publishing a news item |work=Asociación Nacional de la Prensa de Bolivia |access-date=March 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021231343/https://anp-bolivia.com/amenazan-a-diario-opinion-con-un-atentado-por-publicar-una-noticia/ |archive-date=October 21, 2019}}

In 2020 Opinión declared to the Plurinational Electoral Organ to be of national circulation.{{cite web |url=https://www.oep.org.bo/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/OPINION-ESCRITO.pdf |title=Tarifario |work=Plurinational Electoral Organ}} In 2024, the newspaper was a member of the Bolivian National Press Association; the treasurer of the Association was a representative of the newspaper.{{cite web |date=2023 |title=La ANP |url=https://anp-bolivia.com/la-anp/ |work=Asociación Nacional de la Prensa de Bolivia |trans-title=The ANP |access-date=March 16, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230909161358/https://anp-bolivia.com/la-anp/ |archive-date=September 9, 2023}}

In 2025 a labor dispute had taken Opinión to court,{{cite news |title=Trabajadores del diario Opinión, en emergencia por impago de salarios de más de siete meses |url=https://correodelsur.com/sociedad/20250313/trabajadores-del-diario-opinion-en-emergencia-por-impago-de-salarios-de-mas-de-siete-meses.html |access-date=March 16, 2025 |work=Correo del Sur |date=March 13, 2025}} shortly after the newspaper celebrated its 40th anniversary.

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