Word: informaci
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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