Word: colombiano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unsavory Distinction. The one Colombian paper that got the story into print, Medellin's responsible El Colombiano, was closed down by the device of moving the government's censorship office to an out-of-town military post, where editors were ordered to bring all copy. Since the same move shut two other Medellin papers, Rojas Pinilla, who has blotted out all of Bogotá's oldest and best dailies, briefly achieved the unsavory distinction of silencing all of Colombia's best-known papers. After thinking it over, the Medellin dailies doggedly submitted to the awkward censorship...
...reported that 36 soldiers had been killed in a fight with "bandits" early last week, the moderate Conservative Diario de Colombia printed proof that the real toll was four dead and one missing, and scolded El Siglo for falsifying the news. Said Medellín's Conservative El Colombiano...