Buenos Aires Standard

'The Buenos Aires Standard (Estandarte de Buenos Aires, earlier the The Standard or River Plate News or Buenos Ayres Standard) was an English language newspaper published in Buenos Aires between 1861 and 1959. It was founded by the brothers Michael Mulhall and Edward Thomas Mulhall and claimed to be the first English-language daily newspaper in the southern hemisphere. It became the oldest and most respected English newspaper in South America. A significant source on the history of Argentina, it is being digitised and placed online by the Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.