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...important figure who had not taken part in the government's closure of La Prensa was its owner and editor in chief, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz. The morning after the takeover, Gainza Paz sent off a defiant letter to the congressional committee charging that it had exceeded its powers. Then he tried to board a plane to visit his mother, across the River Plate in Uruguay. Police told him his papers were not in order, held him till the plane had left and then let him go. Then Alberto Gainza Paz disappeared...
...ALBERTO GAINZA...
...reason for the shutdown was perfectly clear to La Prensa's publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, an unflinching foe of Peron. The stoppage was no labor dispute, but "a new episode in our years-long battle to remain independent." During the battle, Dr. Gainza Paz had been briefly imprisoned by Peron, his newsprint stocks had been seized and the paper had been harassed in dozens of other ways. News print rationing had forced La Prensa (circulation 380,000 daily, 480,000 Sunday) to cut from about 40 to twelve pages daily...
Although Dr. Gainza Paz appealed for police intervention last week so La Prensa could reopen, the police played deaf...
Free Press. Within the limits of its shrunken size, La Prensa still maintains the proud tradition established by Found, er Jose C. Paz, Gainza Paz's granduncle...