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Ministerio de Información y Turismo...
When Fidel Castro took power in Cuba on New Year's Day 1959, 16 newspapers were published daily in Havana. As Castro's intolerance of opposition mounted, the number rapidly shrank to eight. Last week two more Havana papers-the dailies Avance and Información-abruptly disappeared...
...Información, the last Havana paper not under direct government control and the only one that did not subscribe to the government-owned Prensa Latina news agency, was also the only remaining journalistic outlet for even mild criticism of Castro. Last week, when Información, bedeviled by government economic pressures, decided to abandon the struggle, even the façade of press freedom finally collapsed in Cuba...
...infuriated was President Illas when this story appeared in Havana's gossipy InformaciÓn last month that he devoted a session to a fierce harangue against the press, ordered InformaciÓn's Senate reporter to be booted from the press gallery. At this point the Senators decided they had had enough "conduct unbecoming a Senator," began clamoring for President Illas' resignation. After they refused to appear in numbers sufficient for a quorum. President Illas growled that he would resign. But when, to save face on both sides, his friends got 20 of the 36 Senators...
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