POST 6: A WEB SITE I LIKE

The news website of the paper "El Siglo", there you can find a serious and critical journalism positioned in the left-wing, in this website you can find many section that report about topics like, economy, social problemos, opinion columns, coulure and international news. I usually read the columns that are publish in this website beacuse I think This website born from the weekly newspaper that has the same name, this newspaper was published the first time in 1940 and continuously normally until the military dictatorship prohibited its publication and was normaly publish again in the 90's decade, this website has a important role in our country where the journalism have some interest and defend them, the role of El Siglo is fight and defened the interesets of the workers and humble people. This website is free and it'ts easy to use with the goal that everyone could in and infomate about the wide range of topics that the wide range of issues that it deals with.

The address to this website is: http://www.elsiglo.cl/

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