THE DAILY JOURNAL

  The Daily Journal was an English language newspaper founded in 1945, published in Caracas, Venezuela.  The market of the Daily Journal was English-reading people in Venezuela mostly employees of oil companies and the diplomatic corps established in Caracas.  The newspaper stopped circulating in 2008 after President Hugo Chávez ordered Military Intelligence to arrest and interrogate the Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Journal. The Daily Journal’s main client was the Embassy of the United States of America in Caracas.  This newspaper had been equipped with state-of-the-art technology before its closure and had offices in Lima and Bogotá. In its last years of circulation and under the implementation of its last Editor in Chief, The Daily Journal had the services of more than 20 sources of information among which were The Washington Post, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Der Spiegel among others.

  After graduating from Yale in 1810, Morse became a clerk for a  Boston  book publisher. But painting continued to be his main interest, and in 1811 his parents helped him go to England in order to study that art with American painter  Washington Allston .  During the  War of 1812 , between Great Britain and the  United States , Morse reacted to the English  contempt  for Americans by becoming passionately pro-American.  Like the majority of Americans of his time, however, he accepted English artistic standards, including the “historical” style of painting—the  Romantic  portrayal of  legends  and historical events with personalities gracing the foreground in grand poses and brilliant colours.