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...member. Lantigua was expelled while working on a story about a secret jail where political prisoners were said to be tortured. In a deliberate effort to break the system, Schmidt, then an investigative reporter for San Jose's English language Tico Times and for the Spanish language daily La Prensa Libre, challenged the Costa Rican colegio at a San Jose meeting of the Inter- American Press Association (IAPA) in 1980. "I'm covering this meeting illegally," he announced. "Let me work or sue me." The colegio responded to the dare, and a criminal suit followed. At his first trial...
Even so, free-press advocates are hopeful that the ruling will send a powerful message, starting in Costa Rica. "We cannot imagine," editorialized La Prensa Libre, "that we requested an opinion only to lightly ignore it." Elsewhere, evidence is mounting that the message will not be discounted. In the Dominican Republic, six publishers are pressing a court challenge against that nation's colegio. And in Peru, Editor Enrique Zileri sees the Schmidt decision as the end of any oppressive threat from licensing. He exulted, "It can't happen here." Although gratified about the victory, Attorney Marks feels the battle...
...escape the oppression of Fulgencio Batista, the dictator of the day. When Fidel Castro overthrew Batista in 1959, Padilla returned home and put himself at the command of the new regime, which sent him to London and Moscow as a correspondent for Prensa Latina, the government press agency. Gradually he became disenchanted; he saw the future of his country in the repressive atmosphere of the East bloc. Poems such as this reflected his unhappy feelings...
...withered away, while the influx of Hispanics and Asians has ( given rise to dozens of new publications. The U.S. has six Spanish-language dailies, with a combined circulation of 325,000. There is a newspaper war of sorts in New York City, home to both the venerable El Diario/La Prensa (circ. 70,000) and the upstart Noticias del Mundo (circ. 57,000), owned by the publishing arm of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. In Los Angeles, La Opinion (60,000) competes against Noticias' West Coast edition (30,000). The Midwest is served by Chicago's El Manana...
Three days after Cardenal's expulsion, Pedro Joaquin Chamorro Jr., editor of La Prensa, the country's only opposition paper, announced that he had temporarily moved to Costa Rica. Chamorro charged that censorship and travel restrictions had grown so severe since last month's national elections that life had become "impossible." It is a measure of the task facing the contras that they have so far been unable to turn discontent like Chamorro's into support for their own cause. -By James Kelly...