Diario Norte is a local daily newspaper published in Resistencia

Resistencia

Resistencia may refer to:* Resistencia, Chaco, a city in Argentina* Resistencia International Airport , an airport in Chaco Province, Argentina* Resistencia Civil, Civil resistance* La Resistencia, a 1972 Argentine film...

, Argentina

Argentina

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Norte was established in 1968. The publication was purchased in 1973 by anchorman Juan Carlos Rousselot, who persuaded his brother, Ricardo, to join him from Chicago

Chicago

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. Following the March 1976 coup, Rousselot was arrested and his newspaper was placed under provincial receivership

Receivership

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. Its subsequent purchase by Editorial Chaco in 1978 was alleged in a 1996 lawsuit by Rousselot to have been paid with the Nortes own profits, and at far below its market value; the suit was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Argentina

Supreme Court of Argentina

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in 2001.