Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Resuming the executive powers he gave up during the elections, Peron hinted to a visiting labor delegation what might be in store for the next six years: "Up to now I have maintained the traditional political forms because we are in a process of evolution. We are now moving toward a Syndicalist state...
...thing to shut down and seize a great daily, Argentina's Juan Peron has found, but quite another thing to publish it. Since last May Day, when he gave Buenos Aires' La Prensa to "the workers," the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.) has struggled to get another edition of the daily on the stands. Twice C.G.T. has set publication dates, but no papers have come out, in part because the government let printing machinery become clogged with rust and dust...
...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...