Statistics on Freedom by Roque Dalton Freedom of the press for Salvadoran people costs 20 centavos a day counting only those who can read and have more than 20 centavos left over after eating barely enough to stay alive. Freedom of the press for the big industrial merchants and publicists sells for thousands and change for a black and white page and I don't know how much for a square inch of text or illustration. Freedom of the press for Don Napoleon Viera Altamirano and Dutriz and Pinto and the owners of El Mundo is worth millions: Which includes buildings constructed on military principles which includes machines and paper and ink the financial investments of their enterprises which day by day they receive from the big industrial merchants and publicists and from the government and the North American and other embassies which they extract by exploitation of their workers which they extort by blackmail ("by not printing the denunciation of that most distinguished gentleman or by opportunistically printing the secret that will sink the smallest fish in the sea") which they earn from a concept of "exclusive rights," for example "LOVE IS" towels . . . "LOVE IS" figurines . . . which they collect daily from all Salvadorans (and Guatemalans) who have the available 20 centavos. In capitalist logic freedom of the press is simply another business and its value to each is in proportion to what one pays for it: for the people 20 centavos a head a day‬ for the freedom of the press, for Viera Altamirano Dutriz Pinto, etc. millions of dollars a head a day for the freedom of the press.