Vicente García Torres

Vicente García Torres (1811-1894) was a Mexican journalist. He was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo, and was the founder of one of the most important newspapers in Mexican history: The Republican Monitor.

The Republican Monitor was the second most important liberal newspaper of the nineteenth century, after the nineteenth century, while conservative ideas were exposed in El Tiempo and El Universal. García Torres participated in the Rebellion of the Polkos. He was a man of liberal ideas and in the columns of his newspaper collaborated many of the most important liberal writers of his time, like Francisco Zarco, Ignacio Ramírez, Manuel Payno and Guillermo Prieto. The paper was published for 52 years, with the exception of brief interruptions.

The journalist Miguel Angel Granados Chapa wrote a brief biography: Vicente García Torres: The Republican Monitor.

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