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| | Carmelo Ruiz's Puerto Rico News #20 |
 | | In the early seventies his son, Antonio Luis Ferré, founded a daily newspaper, El Nuevo Día, which was- and still is- openly right-wing, anti-communist and friendly to the idea of Puerto Rico's political annexation and cultural assimilation into the United States. |
 | | A quarter of a century later, El Nuevo Día portrays Luis A. Ferré as a benevolent statesman and philanthropist while Rosselló, whose intolerance towards dissent never reached the brutal extremes of Ferré, is described as a Caribbean version of Pinochet. |
 | | Luis Alberto Ferré, son of Antonio Luis, gallantly defends freedom of expression in high-profile posh events in and out of Puerto Rico, but those PR Cement employees that try to organize a strike will not find any democratic recourse. |
| www.neravt.com /left/contributors/ruiz15.htm (1851 words) |
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