Word: correo
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...junta, antigovernment students took to the streets in support of the striking police. Throwing rocks and burning cars in their path, hundreds of students proceeded to the Plaza San Martin, where they fire-bombed and destroyed a military officers' club. Other targets included the government-backed newspaper Correo, which was also bombed...
...have had to make like a bird. The Education Ministry banned him and 14 other comics because "their illogical and immoral actions contribute to unsettle children's imagination." Fortunately, Lima beansprouts love him almost as much as does Metropolis. Protests mushroomed, and the prestigious El Correo thundered, "Is this the first step toward censorship of the press?" It was, for sure. And two days later the ministry backstepped faster than a herd of crooks downed by a supersock...
...Rojas Pinilla has been carrying on a clumsy feud with the country's traditionally free-swinging press. Last week Rojas discovered that he had stumbled again. His latest press-muzzling maneuver, an attempt to fine two of the country's largest Liberal dailies (El Espectador and El Correo) into oppositionless silence, had backfired. Rojas found himself faced by a "Freedom of the Press Fund," supported by public subscription, to pay the penalties, should he decide to levy similar fines in the future...
...Espectador was fined $2,500 for asking editorially whether it was true that 2,000 political prisoners were being held under inhuman conditions in the steaming plains of eastern Colombia; El Correo, published in Medellin, was rapped with an equal fine for an article regarded as disrespectful to constituted authority and the armed forces...
...money and pledges poured in from private citizens to pay the fines, El Espectador and El Correo politely declined the assistance, pointing out that they were well able to pay the fines themselves. But the National Press Commission, worried about the effect of such fines on smaller, less prosperous newspapers, announced that it would accept donations to pay possible future penalties. As the freedom fund grew, El Espectador continued its opposition, published a cable from former President Eduardo Santos that said tersely, "The fines with which you were honored serve once again to arraign the Office of Information and Propaganda...