CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's only English-language newspaper has expanded its circulation to Peru and is looking to begin sales in countries across Latin America, the paper's new editor said.
The Daily Journal began distributing 3,500 copies a day on Monday in Lima to a select group of readers, said Julio Augusto Lopez Enriquez, a Venezuelan of Peruvian descent who is the paper's new president and editor-in-chief.
"It's going to be coming out in Colombia now this month, and the next it will be coming out in Quito _ in Ecuador _ and Mexico," said Lopez, who heads a group of investors that bought the newspaper last month for an undisclosed sum.
He spoke Tuesday by phone from Washington, where he said his paper had signed a contract to carry content from the magazine Newsweek.
The newspaper also has assigned a group of journalists to work in Peru, and they will be covering Sunday's presidential elections, Lopez said.
Lopez said he aims for the newspaper to be circulating in countries across Latin America by the end of the year. He also has said he aims to increase the paper's circulation within Venezuela from about 5,000 to 10,000 copies a day.
