 In 1956 Capriles Ayala acquired the newspaper "La Esfera", which was sold in 1966.On February 3, 1958, he founded the evening newspaper "El Mundo".In 1959 he bought the magazine Élite; 1962 he acquired the magazines "Venezuela Gráfica" and "Páginas" (the latter of which folded in 1999); in 1966 he founded "Diario Crítica" in Maracaibo, which closed in 1990; in 1968 he founded the "Suplemento Cultural" to Últimas Noticias; in 1969 he founded the sports daily "Extra" (which folded a year later).