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...stories. A possible explanation suggested by Alberse: the common practice of many newspapers which reprint something from the magazine each week, "whether it has any local importance or not." Many editors also use TIME as their own source of much background information. An executive of Colombia's El Tiempo told Alberse: "We read in TIME things that we can find nowhere else, and that we couldn't print ourselves...
Challenge Met. Founded 42 years ago by Eduardo Santos, El Tiempo was democracy's most powerful voice during Colombia's period of peaceful progress in the first half of the century. During World War II, having temporarily laid aside his editorial responsibilities to serve as Colombia's President, El Tiempo's Santos ranged his country at the side of the U.S. His newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo...
Following a funeral for five guerrilla-slain policemen, some 200 well-coached civilian "rioters" sacked and burned the headquarters of two Liberal newspapers, one of them El Tiempo (circ. 180,000), Latin America's most distinguished newspaper since the destruction of Buenos Aires' La Prensa. The attackers destroyed the newspaper's advertising and circulation records, wrecked its oak-paneled editorial offices and gutted its pressroom...
Bogotá's Liberals were incensed; in their partisan zeal, they jumped on the Liberator himself. Wrote German Arciniegas, historian and essayist, in El Tiempo: "Bolívar never believed in democracy, and . . . his contempt for the law and confidence in dictatorship overflowed . . . His formula was dictatorship backed by the army and the archbishops...
Dollars & Influence. Many other Latin American countries thought that was a good idea. The Chilean Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of calling a Latin American conference "in defense of raw materials." Bogotá's El Tiempo cried, "Where is the good will?" Fishing in the troubled waters, Perón's revamped La Prensa sneered at "the Good Neighbor policy that is good only for one neighbor [meaning...