Word: prensa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While Fidel Castro continues to claim that he is not exporting Communist revolution to the rest of Latin America-and some people who should know better seem to believe him-the incident in Puerto Maldonado pointed up the dangerous truth. Wrote the editor of Lima's La Prensa, former Premier Pedro Beltran: "Peru, and every American country including the U.S., will remain subject to grave danger as long as Cuba is permitted to operate as a center of ideological, military and economic subversion for Communism...
...Belaunde's Action Popular gave his total as 593.759, some 29,000 ahead of Haya. APRA's figures showed Haya with 546,407, ahead of Belaunde by 34,000 votes. The closest thing to an impartial estimate was in ex-Premier Pedro Beltran's La Prensa: Haya, 586,000 (32.75%); Belaunde, 579,000 (32.32%); Odria, 500,800 (27.95%). It would probably be three weeks before the last votes were counted officially...
...chain. Last March Chalk paid $850,000 for an 80% interest in El Diario de Nueva York (circ. 68,000), the largest Spanish newspaper in a city that now has 650,000 Puerto Rican inhabitants. This week he takes over the city's only other Spanish daily, La Prensa (circ. 33,000). To house them he is set to buy the Lower Manhattan building and presses of the venerable Journal of Commerce...
Trained in conservatism and orthodoxy at the pre-Laski (1915-18) London School of Economics. Beltran came home to put the modern miracles of science to work on the family hacienda and to criticize governments from the pages of his daily La Prensa. His criticism of ex-Dictator Manuel Odria landed him in jail; his criticism of Odria's successor, President Manuel Prado, gave Prado an idea-he asked Beltran to help run the country...
...outlawed, mass-based political party APRA. Once in office, Prado tried to develop the nation by switching on the currency presses. The sol sank, the economy wobbled, and Prado came under the withering fire of such critics as Pedro Beltrán, publisher of Lima's influential La Prensa...