El Diario: periódico independiente de la mañana was a newspaper founded in Mexico City on October 13, 1906 by Ernesto Simondetti and Juan Sánchez Azcona.
[1][2] It had an illustrated Sunday supplement, El Diario Illustrado.
[3] It has been claimed that it was secretly financed by Enrique Creel.
[3] Its writers included Frías Fernández, Larrañaga Portugal, Torres Palomar, and Jacobo Pratl, as well as the Americans Benjamin De Casseres and a certain O'Brien.
[1][3] Its artist was Álvaro Pruneda,[1] along with the American caricaturist Carlo de Fornaro, who became the artistic director of the Diario Illustrado.