“El Eco” newspaper. Source of Environmental information of Manzanillo city during colony (Essay)

Abstract

The appearance of the first newspaper in Cuba, according to data offered by the consulted bibliography, dates back to the 1764 and 1790 years in Havana while this information source appears in the village of Manzanillo in 1857 with the foundation of “El ECO” newspaper . Despite the fact that it was held just for a short period, it left important trails among the inhabitants of this region of the country. A great deal of information were registered in its different sections, among them the ones that were addressed to the treatment of the different components of the environment, views that are offered by the authors of this article departing from reasoning that the published in that historical period set the bases for the further development of what is known today as the environmental journalism.