[1] It was a conservative newspaper founded by the Catholic Church, days before the triumph of the revolution of April 9, 1952, as a "cultural and informative weekly".
[2] On July 9, 1968, the newspaper Presencia published El Diario del Che en Bolivia for the first time,[3][4][5] eight months after the capture of Ernesto Guevara.
At the end of December 1980, military personnel had occupied its office, under the grounds that the newspaper was "offending the dignity of the Bolivian woman".
Since a democratic government was elected in October 1982, the newspaper supported freedom of speech and the press.
[9] On June 2, 2001, the Bolivian Episcopal Conference, owner of the newspaper, announced the closure after 49 years of work; its last issue said that it was going to be suspended for a while, as the publication had been suffering losses.