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...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...
...campaign against Buenos Aires' La Prensa and La Nation, also anti-Perón, dates back to 1945, when he had Dr. Gainza Paz and Dr. Luis Mitre of La Natión arrested without explanation. They were released after a few hours, but since then more than a dozen ruses have been employed to try to put the papers out of business. Perón has personally urged readers to boycott La Prensa. Laws governing the import of newsprint have been juggled to take paper away from La Prensa and La Natión and give...
Once, government inspectors forced La Prensa to clear its warehouse of paper and put it in the street, ostensibly so that they could make an inspection of steam pipes. The "inspection" dragged on until rain ruined the newsprint...
Wide Publicity. Recently the government took over the placing of all employment want ads, thereby shrinking one of the substantial revenue sources of both papers. So far, La Prensa (circ. 460,000) and La Natión (circ. 250,000) have managed to survive. But La Prensa has been whittled down from a fat 32 pages to a sick twelve by the Peron campaign...