Word: juventud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Truncheons for U.P.I. In recent months, the government has been using the stern approach. It confiscated part of the press run of the Madrid newspaper ABC because it extolled the virtues of liberal constitutional monarchies abroad. Three times the government seized the Catholic magazine Juventud Obrera because of its habit of criticizing state institutions. Last month the entire board of the Catholic weekly Signo was summarily sacked for printing an interview with an exiled Spanish Communist. To date, only the editor has complied and resigned; the rest of the staff have refused to budge...
Holy Pictures. THE PEOPLE ASK THE WALL, headlined the newspaper Juventud Rebelde. Employees at Havana's airport demanded that the execution be carried out there, and the purser of the hijacked plane asked to be a member of the firing squad. Betancourt will almost certainly be executed, and his accomplices sent to jail for long terms, at best. As for the two priests, they may escape with exile-after Castro has milked dry their participation in the plot. The government put great emphasis on the role of the priests and the church in Betancourt's escape, and newspapers...
...Workers' Brotherhoods of Catholic Action and sev eral small but effective Catholic lay organizations that regularly blast the Can-ditto's tight controls on workers from beneath the sheltering wing of the church. One such group, the Young Christian Workers, publishes an uncensored and outspoken monthly bulletin, Juventud Obrera, that demands free, Western-style labor unions, lashes out at the anachronistic sindicatos, which fix prices and wages throughout the country. Said journal Editor Francisco Guerrero, 25, describing his mission last week: "Our work is God's answer to the evil negation of all human values...