Word: pampero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced the imminence of elections; 2) reinstated previously expelled democratic professors; 3) closed the pro-Axis newspapers Cabildo and El Pampero. But the declarations of war against Germany and Japan by six American sister nations (TIME, Feb. 19) caught Argentina flatfooted, isolated her anew...
...crushing "extremist ideologies," the Government dealt less harshly with Nazis and Fascists. The pro-Nazi newspaper El Pampero was closed for five days and Bandera Argentina for ten. Bandera Argentina was reprimanded for insulting President Roosevelt in an editorial en titled "Insolent Ultimatum," dealing with the President's request that neutrals refuse refuge to fleeing Nazis and Fascists...
Representing a more recent influence, in a luxurious office in a new, spic-&-span downtown building sits the handsome editor of El Pampero, the biggest and best Nazi newspaper outside Europe. Everywhere on his editors' and writers' tables the swastika has been industriously whittled; between sips of yerba maté he corrupts all the news he can lay his hands on. There are also the Communist La Hora, the Japanese Momenta Argentina and the British Libre Palabra. Through the distribution by various governments of free features and news, some provincial newspapers have taken .on the appearance of propaganda...
Until 1941 Pampero's normal budget included $11,000 a month from the German Embassy; since early in that year Nazi businessmen have been encouraged by subsidies to give the paper plenty of advertising. With these subsidies Pampero was able to get its circulation up as high as 140,000 and pay the heavy upkeep on Editor Enrique P. Osés, whose salary was $1,500 a month, plus fat expenses covering such items as an eight-man bodyguard. Additional expenses were incurred through Pampero's 58 suits for libel, calumny, contempt, slander, vilification, defamation, extortion...
...arrested for obscenity, for printing an ostensibly mild lampoon of Winston Churchill which was an acrostic: the first letter of each line combined to read "One must be English to be a son of a whore." Editor Osés never stayed long in jail. When impetuous police raided Pampero's office last fall, Acting President Castillo promised that Pampero would be "unmolested, uncontrolled and the publication and distribution uninterrupted." Pampero could perhaps still count on Ramon Castillo's sympathies. But even the efficient Germans can't publish a paper on sympathy sans cash...