El Espectador (meaning "The Spectator") is a newspaper with national circulation within Colombia, founded by Fidel Cano Gutiérrez on 22 March 1887 in Medellín and published since 1915 in Bogotá.
It is the oldest newspaper of those currently published in the country, and one of the oldest in America. It owes its name to the great admiration that its founder had to the poet Victor Hugo, who collaborated in France in a newspaper that bore that name.
