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Ever since his rise to power, President Juan D. Perón has been taking potshots at Buenos Aires' independent La Prensa. Last week he fired a broadside. "For a hundred years, "the President told a railway union congress, "La Prensa has pontificated with endless lies and imbecilities...
...cause of Perón's blast was La Prensa's sympathetic coverage of charges made in the Chamber of Deputies three weeks ago against IAPI, the official state trading agency. A hard-hitting anti-Perón deputy named Agustin Rodriguez Araya had introduced into the record 40 questions that he wanted to ask the Minister of Economy, lAPI's head. A typical question: "What compelling reasons were there for handing over without payment to the majordomo of the presidential country house 20 jeeps which were later found being used by a morning newspaper...
Rodriguez Araya was expelled from the Chamber on a charge of having referred to Perón and his deputies as "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves." He went into exile in Uruguay. But La Prensa kept harping on his accusations. Said a lead editorial just before Perón's speech last week: "It is the national administration which is compromised by these charges. It is the national administration which is responsible for IAPI...
...nation's press, 100% of its radio. Even the dollar famine was turned to Eva's ends; the National Economic Council decreed that during the shortage of foreign exchange, all newspapers would have to pool their newsprint stocks. This meant that the independent La, Prensa and La Nación would have to hand over much of their reserve stock to Peronista newspapers. Eva's man took charge of the divvying...
Many an Argentine hesitated to accept La Prensa's conclusion that Miranda was a dead duck. They had not forgotten that 18 months ago, when he swapped his job as head of the Central Bank for the chairmanship of the Economic Council, he had become stronger than ever. Perhaps he could do it again. But if half the stories circulating in Buenos Aires were true, Don Miguel was really out this time. Recent cabinet meetings, according to these stories, had become very stormy every time economic matters were discussed. Even Miranda's underlings in the Central Bank...