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Society, Politics, and the Press: An Interpretation of the Peruvian Press Reform of 1974

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Dennis Gilbert
Dennis Gilbert*
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Department of Sociology, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323
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In the early morning hours of July 27, 1974, the military government of Peru employed riot police to seize control of the country's principal daily newspapers. The government announced that the newspapers were being transferred to independent organizations representative of broad sectors of Peruvian society. Peru's “Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces,” which came to power in 1968, had already surprised students of the Latin American military with a series of radical measures which included an extensive land reform, the expropriation of a number of foreign companies, reorganization of the financial sector, and the creation of a system of worker control for industry. Now President Juan Velasco Alvarado presented the press takeover as an integral part of a fundamental reordering of the existing society along progressive nationalist lines.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , August 1979 , pp. 369 - 393
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Copyright © University of Miami 1979

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