First Economic Journal, Business and Finance of Colombia, was founded on March 1954 by former President Mariano Opine Perez and Julio C. Hernandez, one of the most important entrepreneurs of Antique and pioneer of the country’s newspaper industry.
At that time, despite its strong political orientation as a spokesman of the Conservative Party and in its pages was a marked emphasis on economic, business or business imposed by its founders, who identified “The Republic” and “The Journal of Working Men, “a name that kept for several years.

Mid 70, Manager and Director, Rodrigo Opine Hernandez, the newspaper decided to specialize in economic data, abandoning the previous policy direction, whereas in Colombia required a journalistic product of such a nature exist until that time not only in the country but also in much of Latin America.

Was how it became “The Economic Journal Country First” model of business journalism in the region, following in the footsteps of the newspaper “Wall Street Journal” U.S. Opine Hernandez country where higher education.

In the late 80′s, passed the Economic Journal and Financial Business Journal, with more emphasis on business or microeconomic issues in the macroeconomic, in defense of private initiative as a major engine of the economy, and in order to be “a working tool” for businesspersons, most of its readers.

In the year 2000 and to commemorate the celebration of 50 years of “The Republic”, was launched, based on extensive market research and expert advice, a major redesign of the newspaper, both in its form and its content, which helped strengthen the business section and open specialized pages for Sees and New Economy, and other changes that attended the informational needs of readers, including young people.