[1] Its first headquarters were located in a house between the corners of Sociedad and San Francisco de Caracas, where Daniel Aramburu's printing press worked.

[3] The editors of this first issue were Rafael Silva in the chronicle, Francisco López Moreno and Santiago Caldera in the distribution, Luis Correa who served as chronicler, Pedro Bocca as office manager, Luis Alberto Ascanio as depositor, Miguel Ángel Ibarra as a proofreader, and Federico Webber as press writer.

[3] In January 1910, the first photographs of the newspaper were published, one by Juan Vicente Gómez and another of a troop in the Plaza Bolívar in Caracas, which Guerra Toro took.

[4] In 1922 the newspaper modernized its equipment, published the first economic notice, and incorporated Luis Teófilo Núñez into the company's administration.

[4] As of October 24, 1929, it incorporated "La Página de los Jueves" and "El Deporte Nacional", the first fixed spaces of the newspaper.

[4] In 1969, El Universal moved to its current headquarters, a tower built on the corner of Ánimas, on Urdaneta Av.

It was created by the architects Francisco Pimentel, George Wilkie and Bernardo Borges, who won the National Architecture Award in 1971.

[5] In 1970, another HOE Multicolor rotary printing press was acquired, with the capacity to edit 144 pages, with a speed of 70,000 copies per hour.

[7] On the morning of 13 April 2002, when the removal of Hugo Chávez in what later came to be referred to as the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt appeared a success, the paper headlined ¡Un Paso Adelante!

[15][16][17][18][19] According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), El Universal "cosied up to Venezuela's socialist government" following the purchase.