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...monopoly evening paper that was manipulated as a government mouthpiece by Minister of the Interior Vallenilla Lanz. Its plant was sacked at the height of the revolution, and in its place, only nine days after the revolution, Caraqueños last week got a new evening paper called El Mundo. Its fighting slogan : "I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery...
...Mundo's maxim is more than Monday-morning bravado. The new daily was propelled into orbit by slender, bushy-haired Miguel Angel Capriles, 42, Venezuela's biggest publisher, whose morning papers. La Esfera (The Sphere) and tabloid Ultimas Noticias (Latest News), earned a hazardous reputation as two of the few sheets that proved most staunch in defiance of Pérez Jiménez. (The only daily that outdid Capriles' papers was Roman Catholic La Religión, which refused to run a single line on the dictator's "me-or-nobody" election victory.) Publisher Capriles...
...Pundit Pearson irritated Cuban readers with his naive reporting and prize factual boners, e.g., Pearson wrote that Batista "once threw out Cuba's most hated dictator," although, as every Cuban schoolchild knows, Batista had nothing to do with Dictator Gerardo Machado's ouster in 1933. Quipped El Mundo Columnist Carlos Robreno: If Batista's cronies had given "one more lunch in his honor," Pearson might have written that "Batista also led the revolution against Spain in 1868 and started the War of Independence...
...National Columnist Luis Conte Aguero exploded: "Too ridiculous to comment." Although intensive security precautions are taken to protect Batista wherever he goes, Pearson wrote that the President "had no secret service" at a political rally in central Cuba, "literally fought his way . . . through a sea of admirers." Snorted El Mundo's Editor Raoul Alfonso Gonse: "Pearson saw only one side of the coin...
...once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former fashion editor of Havana's daily. El Mundo; Ramon Frausto, who wrote a column syndicated in more than 40 Mexican papers...