El Colombiano

El Colombiano is generally regarded as right-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments of Colombia's press. In Colombia, El Espectador is listed as Left-leaning, while El Tiempo and El Heraldo are listed as Centrist — so you can open El Colombiano beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read El Colombiano beside another title from Colombia and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Colombia covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are El Colombiano's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because El Colombiano is listed as right-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a left-leaning title from Colombia on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

El Colombiano is one of 5 outlets tracked in Colombia, and one of 4 daily newspapers among them — the others being El Tiempo, El Espectador and El Heraldo. By outlets tracked, Colombia ranks 16th of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.

Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 85 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to El Colombiano outside Colombia, starting with South America, are El Comercio (Peru), Últimas Noticias (Venezuela), El Universo (Ecuador) and El País (UY) (Uruguay). Opening one of them beside El Colombiano is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.