Word: censorships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaping lustily to life after nearly a decade of censorship and browbeating, Venezuela's newspapers have more than doubled circulation since the fall of Dictator Pérez Jiménez (TIME, Feb. 3). In their hunger for honest news, Venezuelans are even snapping up women's magazines and sporting sheets, also long-censored. Conspicuously absent from Caracas' newsstands : El Heraldo, a monopoly evening paper that was manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after...
...told newspaper stories. At the same time, Miguel Capriles and most other publishers realize that they can best shore up a shaky democracy by avoiding excess in their new freedom. Wryly, Capriles admits: "For the time being we are exercising a sort of self-censorship...
...turned out, last week's detailed, accurate coverage of the U.S. Army's satellite triumph-after the event -not only vindicated General Yates's patient diplomacy, but mollified news editors, who had become increasingly restive under the harness of a voluntary peacetime censorship that has descended ever Canaveral...
...Protestant Ministerial Association expressed to the publishers its support of Roman Catholic Hames. Said the resolution: "We feel that he has rendered a valiant service to the community. If the reason for his dismissal was his frank discussion and presentation of public issues, we deplore this kind of censorship...
...emphasis, the Chicago Tribune's Jules Dubois was bounced out of the country within 24 hours of his arrival, could not return until after the government was overthrown. Within half an hour of Dictator Pérez Jiménez' flight, the ten-year-old censorship was scrapped. Nonetheless, newsmen still had a complaint: to quell street rioting, the new government slapped a ban on liquor sales that proved far harder to crack than censorship...