Manuel del Socorro Rodríguez (Bayamo, Captaincy General of Cuba, April 3, 1758 - Bogotá, Viceroyalty of New Granada, June 2, 1819) was a Cuban journalist.

Approximately in June 1790, he left the Caribbean island for Cartagena in the Viceroyalty of New Granada, present-day Colombia.

Del Socorro embarked on a boat sailing the Magdalena River and reached Honda, Tolima.

Reporting about the Colombian independence movement from Spain, he published La Constitución Feliz in 1810.

[3] Del Socorro Rodríguez died in the capital on June 3, 1819, before the factual independence was established.