Word: argentina
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...ranging from the extreme left to the far right. This was seen by political observers as a trend toward a two-party system that, if it continues, could give the country a more stable political system. Of the eleven countries in South America, Venezuela along with Colombia, and possibly Argentina, are the only working democracies. The big loser in the election was former Dictator Perez Jimenez, who had called on his followers to boycott the balloting. The only candidate supporting Perez Jimenez received a minuscule .68% of the vote, a showing so poor that many now believe that Jimenez...
...Costa Rica, where Vesco has business interests and political friends, the Corte Suprema de Justicia last July turned down an extradition bid by the U.S. Then, when Vesco asked for an advisory opinion, a federal criminal court in Buenos Aires ruled that Argentina would not extradite either, should he decide to move there. Finally, in the Bahamas, where Vesco gives campaign contributions to the ruling party and now has extensive financial operations, another magistrate has turned the U.S. down. Last week U.S. Attorney Paul
...General Hugo Banzer's Bolivia. Brazil's interests in Bolivia include one of the largest iron-ore deposits in the world and natural gas and petroleum deposits. General Stroessner, recently elected president of Paraguay, signed a treaty in May 1973 with Brazil rather than a proposed contract with Argentina, for the rights to build one of the world's largest hydroelectric plants in the River Plate basin...
...were almost all young people, but their theoretical mentor was a Brazilian in his late fifties named Carlos Marighela, the man who formulated a plan for urban guerrilla warfare that is adhered to by groups as disparate as the Tupamaros in Uruguay and the People's Revolutionary Army in Argentina...
Urban guerrilla war has not met with success thus far. Marighela is dead, the Tupamaros are dispersed, and the Chilean people have not yet swung into action, although the Pinochet dictatorship says it expects urban outbreaks. In Argentina, the People's Revolutionary Army is in action, although the situation there is complicated by the curious figure of Juan Peron. The North American sociologists were both right and wrong. Industrialism did not cause revolutionary resistance to disappear, but neither has that resistance gained anything resembling political victory. The successes of urban guerrilla warfare have been almost exclusively informational: The kidnappings...