Ángel Ramos (industrialist) spouse Argentina Hills
El Mundo newspaper
In 1944, Ramos purchased the newspaper's holding company and thus, became the sole owner and publisher of the newspaper. He met his future wife, an Italian girl by the name of Argentina Schifano while on a business trip to New York City. After they were married, the couple continued to live in Puerto Rico where Ramos's company was based.Ramos founded WEMB-Radio El Mundo and within a period of two years he purchased another radio station, WKAQ, thus establishing "Radio El Mundo" as the number 1 radio station in Puerto Rico which controlled 80% of the total air time.Death and legacy
On September 1, 1960, Angel Ramos died in New York City of a intracerebral hemorrhage. His wife Argentina became the head of El Mundo Enterprises.  She established the Angel Ramos Foundation, which is now the largest private philanthropic foundation in Puerto Rico. In 1963, Argentina remarried and moved to Miami, Florida. The Angel Ramos Foundation provided a matching grant of one half the construction cost of the Arecibo Observatory's visitor center which was named after Mr. Ramos.On April 14, 1983, WKAQ-TV was sold to John Blair and Co. and in October 1987 it passed to the hands of Reliance, Inc., which owned the nationwide Spanish language television network in the United States, NetSpan; WKAQ-TV since became a part of the network, which was later renamed Telemundo after the Puerto Rican station.
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