Diario Las Américas (Miami, Fla.; Miami Springs, Fla.) 1953-Current
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,175 issues from 1953 to 1963, published in Miami Springs, Florida, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Diario las Américas, published by the Américas Pub. Co., began printing November 1953 in Miami, FL as a member of the Inter-American Press Association. It published an issue daily (except for on Mondays), primarily in Spanish “por la libertad, la cultura y la solidaridad hemisferica” (“for liberty, culture and hemispheric solidarity”).
Since its early days, the city served as the home base for many Hispanics fleeing their homelands due to economic and political hardships. A case in point is the exodus of Cubans to Miami after Fidel Castro claimed power in Cuba in 1959. While Cubans make up the majority of the city’s population, Miami is home to newcomers from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and other Latin American/Caribbean nations.
From its inception, issues of the Diario were published in Spanish, except for the very last page of every issue, which was printed in English. This “Inter-American News for English-speaking people” section was a dedicated space to share news and reach the English-speaking community. However, in August 1958, the publisher altered the publication by removing this English-language “Inter-American News” section and replaced it with a “Noticias de Miami y Florida” (“News from Miami and Florida”) to further serve its Spanish-speaking community. It also included a recurring section “La Voz de Tampa” (“The Voice of Tampa”), which featured news directly from the paper’s Tampa office.
During the 1950s and 1960s,…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Miami Springs, Florida, United States
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress