Its founders include journalist and former editor of Investigation and Politics of El Mercurio Eduardo Sepúlveda,[3][1][2] the commercial engineer Carlos Kubick O., José Antonio Guzmán A.,[4] former Chilean minister of sports Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle, and economist Hernán Büchi.
[1][5][6] El Líbero currently has 88 shareholders and is a member of the National Press Association (ANP),[7] a conglomerate with 71 years of history that covers the main newspapers in the country.
[8] Despite its denounced bias[9][10][11]—identified as neoconservative by scholar Luis Navarro[12]—the newspaper has received awards for some of its content,[13] such as the investigation by journalist Emily Avendaño[14] into links between Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht and Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, which was recognized by the Inter American Press Association in 2018.
[2] Additionally, in an interview with Canal 13, Sepúlveda mentioned the Roman god of freedom, Liber, whose name refers to being able to move freely, one of the publication's goals.
[10] After Piñera came to power, members of his government, such as Mario Desbordes, criticized the influence Larroulet had on El Líbero in attempting to exert pressure on the president to implement libertarian policies.