Spanish-language newspaper ceases printing after 45 years, leaving void in Las Vegas - The Nevada Independent

Spanish-language newspaper ceases printing after 45 years, leaving void in Las Vegas - The Nevada Independent

Edmundo Escobedo Jr. wants the weekly newspaper he founded with his father almost half a century ago, El Mundo or The World in English, to be remembered as the last major Spanish-language paper in Las Vegas.  And so even after its heyday, when the paper brimmed with news of every wedding, quinceañera and soccer match the family could attend and after the 100-page editions dwindled to 12, the family kept it going for as long as they could, delive…