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Torres' murder was the third in a grisly series of spectacular political killings that have tainted the nation-saving image won by Argentina's military junta in their virtually bloodless ouster of the incompetent Isabel Peron last March. Three weeks ago, two former Uruguayan legislators, Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, were seized in separate commando-style raids. Their bodies were found four days later in an abandoned car, together with the corpses of two other Uruguayans who had earlier been involved with the Tupamaro guerrillas...
False Charges. The murders of these prominent exiles are dramatic evidence that the political violence that has beset Argentina for six years has not stopped under the generals; at least 350 people have died since they took over. Most observers agree that the guerrillas have been hit hard by the security forces, but they can still hit back. Last week guerrillas kidnaped Colonel Juan Alberto Pita, a friend of President Jorge Rafael Videla and the recently appointed government referee in the powerful General Confederation of Labor...
...private investors; (3) letting prices rise to their market levels; (4) cutting down on the state bureaucracy; (5) a tax reform emphasizing a value-added tax; and (6) eliminating restrictions on corporate profit levels. The day after the coup, the IMF released $110 million of the $300 million that Argentina had been requesting...
...measures bode ill for the foreign exiles living in Argentina. A large number of political refugees from right-wing repression in Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil have sought asylum in Argentina over the years. There is nowhere for them to go now in South America except Venezuela and Colombia, and they would be well advised to stay away from the latter. The Chilean secret police force, operating in Argentina, has rounded up 1300 refugees (Garcia Marquez, N.Y. Times 5/8/76) and will probably try to return them to Chile...
...FASCIST BLOC in South America has never been as powerful as it is today. Argentina's incorporation into the concert of military dictatorships has reinforced its repression and hegemony. This bloc of right-wing juntas and dictators, of course, naturally responds to many of the basic economic and political interests of the United States in Latin America. American interests are to keep the region free from communism and open to heavy foreign investment...