Word: tribuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the President's orders, government troops in Lima occupied APRA headquarters, seized the plant of its newspaper, La Tribuna, arrested several prominent Apristas (including the party's second in command, Senator Manuel Seoane). Burly Victor Raul Haya de la Torre, APRA's leader, had disappeared, perhaps into the political underground where he had already spent 16 years of his life. One did not need to be as politically shrewd as Haya to know that if Bustamante had been looking for a chance to outlaw APRA, this week's revolt presented a tailor-made opportunity...
...Bustamante cold-shouldered an Aprista delegation that called to offer him support. Instead, after a scuffle a few days later in Lima's market place, his police arrested 15 men, four of them La Tribuna staffers, and charged them with trying to start a food riot. Intent on his middle way, Bustamante wanted to make clear that he would be just as tough with Apristas as he had been with right-wing plotters...
...Communist daily, the name-changing Tribuna Popular, got the treatment a few hours after President Dutra signed 900-A. A police detail appeared with a two-week suspension order from the Minister of Justice. Gingerly trying Tribuna's metal door, they set off a burglar alarm, and then started shooting. For half an hour they fought it out, until police machine guns and tear gas ended the brawl. Score: four Communists seriously wounded...
...afternoon of the Tribuna attack, hooligans tore down the Soviet Embassy's shield. Moscow translated the incident into a "stoning" of the embassy, put Brazilian Ambassador Mario de Pimentel Brandão and his entourage of nine under hotel arrest. Only when the Rio Soviet Embassy staff of 32 were safely off for Montevideo would Pimentel & friends get exit visas...
...came to power, encouraged the opposition in its criticism and attacks, and also brought about counterattacks. Tubby, nearsighted, German-born Rodolfo Katz, whose weekly Mimeographed Economic Survey has long predicted economic troubles, was taken for a ride and beaten up by men masquerading as policemen. The nationalist Tribuna, which has centered its fire on pale-faced, pudgy Miguel Miranda, Perón's financial czar and president of the Central Bank, was closed on "technical grounds...