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...second week, Buenos Aires' La Prensa was closed down. The independent conservative newspaper, one of the most respected in the world, was in a fight for its existence against Juan Peron. It had been shut down by the refusal of the government-bossed news vendors' union to handle it unless La Prensa gave the union 20% of its ad revenues and exclusive right to distribute the newspaper in Buenos Aires...
...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...
...Juan Peron neatly finessed his most troublesome foe last week by bestowing freedom upon...
Last week President Peron ordered a pardon for Balbin because "a definitive sentence [had] not yet been pronounced" on him. With these bland words, Peron disarmed his critics. Balbin went to his home. But the law of desacato (disrespect for public officials), under which Balbin had been sent to jail, remained very much in effect...
...level. It is not enough to call Perón a Caudillo, Big Brother, Duce or Führer; these terms have a worldly connotation, and since he has achieved heavenly status without the necessity of dying, it is better to dub him saint. But in another sense, Saint-Peron-ism is the political version of Superman. Even as the followers of Superman trust in his extraordinary talents, so do the shirtless worshipers of Saint Perón believe in his special powers-divine, atomic...