The Press: Argentina's Voice
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La Prensa's foreign affairs editorials often wield great influence, but have not budged the isolationism of President Ramón Castillo. The paper has supported Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, pumped for the United Nations, denounced the totalitarians. But it speaks softly. When Argentina's President Castillo gagged the press with a decree forbidding editorial discussions of foreign events, admirers of Don José recalled how he once suspended publication in protest at another Argentine President's like decree. If old Don José were now alive, declared they, he would again have stopped La Prensa's presses rather than submit to Castillo's regulations.
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