Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires, La Prensa is still closed down, victim of a government-encouraged strike. Dictator Peron, facing an "election" year, has counted La Prensa's enforced silence as his first step to a complete victory...
...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...
...this was the first time under Peron that La Prensa had been forced to shut...
...kind; it lets adver tisers come to it. On a big local story, it still assigns as many as 30 reporters and photographers, blanketing all other news papers with sharply written coverage, has yet to run a byline over any staffer's sto ry. Before Peron, La Prensa often printed 30 to 40 columns of cable news daily thought nothing of ordering null treaties and other important state papers by cable so that it could print the full texts...