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...levels of Argentine society, from cabinet ministers to cab drivers. Argentines have learned never to discuss politics on street corners, in restaurants or in the presence of strangers, servants or children. Fear often saves Perón the trouble of taking overt action. The once great independent newspaper La Nación theoretically is still independent. But in practice the editors of La Nación know that if they should print one or two outspoken editorials, the paper would be closed...
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...Prensa, ordered to come across in 72 hours, the ruling meant that its recent "expropriation" by the government was actually confiscation; the $2,300,000 assessed for customs would probably just cancel out the newspaper's "value" the way the government will compute it. For La Nación, which got no specific deadline to pay its $1,250,000 in back duties, the message was an ominous hint of doom...
...asked what the people in North America thought of his regime "Well, Mr. President," replied the visitor, "they are worried about the lack of freedom in the Argentine press." "What do you mean?" said Perón. "We have freedom of the press. Just look at La Nación and La Prensa. They attack me all the time. I read them every morning myself." The visitor answered: "This man Visca you have here has brought lots of bad publicity to Argentina. They say he goes around closing newspapers." Whereupon Perón pressed a button, barked an order through...
...Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in the past five weeks; charges of libel and account-juggling have been brought against the leading independent dailies La Nación and La Prensa (TIME...