Word: peronism
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...Intransigente, in the northern Argentine city of Salta, was neither as big, old, rich, or famous as Buenos Aires' late great La Prensa. But under the editing of David Michel Torino, 56, it was Salta's best newspaper. Like La Prensa, El Intransigente was also outspokenly anti-Peron. For that it has been forced to pay with its life...
...years ago its plant was padlocked for alleged reselling of newsprint-though the difference between what the newspaper bought and what it used had been less than eleven ounces. Then Peron expropriated Editor Torino's personal property, and a Salta judge slapped a lien on his bank account. Torino fought back, brought out a mimeographed edition of El Intransigente, and appealed for help to the Inter-American Press Association. Peron declined to let the Association's commission into Argentina, then jailed Torino for running his clandestine paper and for "disrespect" toward the Salta judge...
...lawyer was thrown in jail for "disrespect." Torino's doctor, who got permission to move Torino to a Salta hospital for a hernia operation last month, also landed in jail. His offense: protesting when the authorities ordered Torino back to jail only four days after the operation. Peron even found a way to send El Intransigente to jail. By terms of his expropriation decree, the mechanical plant of the newspaper was presented to the Salta jail for its job-printing department...
...used the same type and makeup, ran the same columns of social news, claimed the same circulation. Gone were the exhaustive reports from abroad which had helped make La Prensa one of the world's great newspapers, and the editorials which had quietly spoken up against Juan Peron...
Bossing the Peronized paper is C.G.T. Boss Jose Espejo (Peron had wanted to make the plant a state publishing house, but ailing Evita Peron held out for a C.G.T.-owned paper and won). Its editor is Martiniano Passo, who edited Evita's own daily, Democrada. He had lured in only one top newsman from the old La Prensa, Luis Maria Alvarez, once an intimate of former Publisher Alberto Gainza Paz, now in voluntary exile...