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''La Tribuna'' was one of the most important daily newspapers in the history of Paraguay. It was founded in Asunción in 1925 by Eduardo Schaerer, and was for over five decades the main newspaper of the country. Schaerer was named dean of the national press for founding the first widely-circulated and internationally distributed newspaper in the country. He maintained a firm opposition line to dictatorial regimes Higinio Morínigo and Alfredo Stroessner, and was harassed and persecuted by the media and government for many years. His struggle for an independent press had international repercussions and in 1953, along with the newspaper's director, Arturo Schaerer, won the Maria Moors Cabot Prize from Columbia University, NY. History The newspaper La Tribuna was founded in Asuncion on December 31, 1925, by Eduardo Schaerer, President of Paraguay Between 1912 and 1916, had already founded above other media outlets, including the Journal in 1905 alongside Guadalberto Cardús Huerta and Adolfo Riquelme. From the day of its foundation joined Arturo Schaerer, Eduardo Schaerer's son that with 18 years began in journalism, who worked in the argentinian newspaper La Razon of Buenos Aires. After the founder's death in 1941, Arturo Schaerer assume the journal Direction and Administration. After the death of President Jose Felix Estigarribia, assume Gral. Higinio Morínigo, who later begins a persecution against many politicians and illustrious citizens of liberal extraction, also pursued the independent press, he closed La Tribuna several times. With Gral. Alfredo Stroessner La Tribuna continued to live similar situations and it was permanently threatened. Schaerer had to resort many times to Ambassadors and international contacts to keep it Running, situation that bothered and worried the dictatorial government. Since 1954, the director had the support of Carlos Ruiz Apezteguia, denouncing the abuses and crimes of the dictatorship and the breakdown of the rule of law. In November 1956 the newspaper La Tribuna was brutally intervened, Carlos Ruiz Apezteguia being arrested, tortured and then abandoned in a boat on the shores of Clorinda, Argentina, beginning his exile in Montevideo, Uruguay. By international pressure in 1959 he returned to Paraguay and resumes his journalistic work in the newspaper La Tribuna. Even against these political changes and the persecution to which he was subjected in the following decades, La Tribuna grew and consolidated as one of the most respected newspapers of the continent, since it had agencies in many countries, growing from the 2,000 copies daily in times of its founding, to more than 70,000 by the year 1965, being that value until today greater than the current daily circulation of Paraguay . All this difficult and arduous work for an independent press and opposition to totalitarian regimes in which was immersed Paraguay earned him, in 1953, the director and his newspaper, the oldest international journalism award, the Maria Moors Cabot prize from Columbia University, NY. Arturo Schaerer remained as Director of La Tribuna until May 15, 1972, he was succeeded by Mr. Carlos Ruiz Apezteguia, journalist and husband of his daughter Myriam Schaerer and intense partner and manager of La Tribuna for more than two decades. During his direction he denounced abuses in the negotiations of the Treaty of Itaipu and Yacyreta, with Brazil and Argentina respectively on the construction of the dams. In 1976 the newspaper La Tribuna was closed along with the newspaper Ultima Hora until 1979, and in 1983 La Tribuna, with other owners, step by becoming the newspaper Noticias. ==References== *Traces of Schaerer family. Review of Swiss Inmigration to Paraguay and Rio de la Plata. Juan Emilio Escobar Schaerer y Celia Escobar Schaerer. *La Tribuna Archives. * * 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「La Tribuna (Paraguay)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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