Cronica, Argentina’s largest mass circulation daily, admitted yesterday that it committed an error by publishing a grossly anti-Semitic cartoon on Yom Kippur and expressed regrets. The admission was made in response to a sharp protest lodged by the DAIA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry, and expressions of shock by other newspapers and organizations over the Stuermer-style caricature by the popular cartoonist, Basurto. But Cronica, which has a circulation of 700,000 and is owned by supporters of former President Juan Person, has published Basurto cartoons in the same anti-Semitic vein on at least two previous occasions for which no apologies were made. On Rosh Hashanah it ran a cartoon showing two bearded, hawk-nosed Jews congratulating themselves on the good business they did during the year. Last July a cartoon showed a Jewish usurer exploiting a man.
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