FOLLOWING WIESENTHAL PROTEST, ARGENTINIAN PAPER APOLOGIZES FOR CAUSING 'ANGUISH OR PAIN'

Following a protest launched by the Simon Wiesenthal Center to the Argentine newspaper Pagina/12 regarding a comic strip mocking victims of the Holocaust, the paper has issued an apology.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center had expressed indignation at a comic strip titled “An Adventure of David Gueto (Ghetto),” in the weekly 'Young Culture" section of the Argentine daily Pagina/12, (http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/suplementos/no/34-5779-2012-01-19.html).

Its author, Gustavo Sala apparently sought to parody DJ David Guetta with a character named “David Gueto (Ghetto),” who promotes a dancing party for the prisoners in a Nazi concentration camp. When prisoners complain that “we are being gassed and exterminated,” a caricature of Adolf Hitler tells them that “some dancing won’t make you any worse,” adding that “if they are relaxed, you get a better soap.”

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