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Major General Pedro Aramburu's government followed up with large-scale jailings. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Peronistas were behind bars; 125 labor leaders were loaded aboard a navy transport to be sent to distant Patagonia, Argentina's more than adequate substitute for Siberia...
...vigor and persistence of the disorders evidently alarmed Aramburu. At week's end the government hastily freed 66 former Peronista Congressmen "in keeping with a healthy policy of pacification." It was the first time the regime had spoken of pacification...
...regime's headaches have economic as well as political roots. In recent weeks Aramburu has given Argentina an unpalatable dose of austerity to try to clear up the economic mess inherited from Peron. The country's best-known economist, U.N. Official Raul Prebisch, reported that government interference under Peron had crippled economic development and kept the country's average per capita income almost stationary for ten years. He recommended stripping off many controls, e.g., an artificially high peso exchange rate, and taking anti-inflationary fiscal measures. A healthy if painful readjustment is taking place...
...government has been pressing for de-Peronization in Paraguay as well as at home. Argentine exports to Paraguay of vitally needed flour and other foods began to fall off significantly. A fortnight ago. Stroessner sent a top general to hold private talks with Argentina's new President Pedro Aramburu. Upon the general's return, Stroessner ran a quiet housecleaning and offered Mendez and his Peronista cohorts honorable ambassadorships in distant countries...
Lights burned late in government offices last week as President Pedro Aramburu and his military advisers checked over the intelligence reports on a plot against them; then the officers acted. Cops and Marines burst into a meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police...