El Porvenir (The Future) is an independent daily newspaper based in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León, founded in 1919.
The newspaper was founded on January 31, 1919 by Neoleon businessman Jesús Cantú Leal (Cadereyta Jiménez, Nuevo León, September 18, 1877 - Monterrey, March 26, 1947), Eduardo Martínez Celis, Federico Gómez, and Colombian poet Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (1883-1942), better known by his heteronym Porfirio Barba-Jacob,[1] who retired two months later.
The company had been established in January 1919, during the final stages of the Mexican Revolution; in the following years, Mexico would need to heal the wounds of that civil war, and the population would need to reflect, to set its sights on the future.
Its first issue had the seven-column title: "El Hambre y la Desnudez de las clases humildes deben tener un Próximo Fin" (The Hunger and the Nakedness of the Humble Classes Must Have a Coming End).
El Porvenir is highly regarded for its content, as evidenced by the inclusion of columnists from national newspapers such as Marcela Gómez Zalce and Mario Maldonado.