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...reason for the shutdown was perfectly clear to La Prensa's publisher, Dr. Alberto Gainza Paz, an unflinching foe of Peron. The stoppage was no labor dispute, but "a new episode in our years-long battle to remain independent." During the battle, Dr. Gainza Paz had been briefly imprisoned by Peron, his newsprint stocks had been seized and the paper had been harassed in dozens of other ways. News print rationing had forced La Prensa (circulation 380,000 daily, 480,000 Sunday) to cut from about 40 to twelve pages daily...
Although Dr. Gainza Paz appealed for police intervention last week so La Prensa could reopen, the police played deaf...
...Sowers of Evil." Occasionally even these meager rights have been violated by mob action. Six weeks after one such episode, reports Garrison, "the periodical El Iris de Paz ('the Rainbow of Peace'!), by its own description 'a fortnightly magazine of information and guidance, Marian and Catholic'-answered a real or imaginary inquirer who asked: 'Is it lawful to enter into chapels or meeting places of Protestants . . . with the sole idea of disturbing and of destroying the furniture and other articles?' The answer was in three parts: 1) as to 'disturbing...
...campaign against Buenos Aires' La Prensa and La Nation, also anti-Perón, dates back to 1945, when he had Dr. Gainza Paz and Dr. Luis Mitre of La Natión arrested without explanation. They were released after a few hours, but since then more than a dozen ruses have been employed to try to put the papers out of business. Perón has personally urged readers to boycott La Prensa. Laws governing the import of newsprint have been juggled to take paper away from La Prensa and La Natión and give...
...hemisphere censorship-the newly constituted Inter-American Press Association decided to mobilize its strongest weapon: the force of public opinion. Henceforth, complaints againt the suppression of press freedom in any of the Americas will bring on an investigation by the association, whose 45 directors include Dr. Gainza Paz. If any country refuses to permit the investigation, that fact will be given "the greatest publicity possible...