Word: prensa
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...just after 7 in the evening. Francisco ("Panchito") Grana Garland, 45, boss of Lima's ultraconservative La Prensa, manager of a big pharmaceutical business, had had a long day at the office. "Good night, sonny," he said to the porter, and headed toward his car. A moment later six shots crackled in the street. The porter got out in time to see a sedan turn the corner. Grana lay mortally wounded at the wheel...
Since 1945 La Prensa had stood on the editorial opinion that fanatics who had spent 16 years in illegal activity would never be fit to govern Peru. When Apra Leader Victor Raul Haya de la Torre put three Apristas in key Cabinet posts, La Prensa helped stall their projects for raising the social and economic level of Peru's 4.000.000 Indians. La Prensa also fought the Apra plan to get Standard Oil cash for these plans in return for oil concessions...
...only recently, in deference to La Prensa-led opposition, they had put off the controversial oil deal till July. To place themselves beyond suspicion during the investigation, the three Apra Cabinet ministers resigned, thereby causing the Cabinet to fall. Apra's La Tribuna offered a $3.000 reward for the murderer...
...Crux. Absorbed in such social projects, the Government had a narrow escape in the press-law controversy. Though the new bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...
...Peru's Ricardo Palma, who called his stories Tradiciones Peruanas was a tradition and a classic himself before he died in 1919 at the age of 86. He had fought against the Spanish at Callao and against the Chileans at Miraflores. He was once editor of the great Prensa in Buenos Aires, and returned to Lima to rebuild the National Library which the Chileans had pillaged...