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...ominous rumors had been circulating throughout Argentina: President Héctor Cámpora and his Cabinet would resign, and former Dictator Juan Perón would be in position to assume the presidency. At precisely 10:30 a.m. last Friday, the rumors became reality. Cámpora appeared on nationwide television and radio to announce "the mandate which General Perón gave us, we now return to him, because he is the leader of this great national, popular, Christian and revolutionary movement...
Thus history in troubled Argentina came full circle. Less than a month after his return from 18 years of enforced exile abroad, the way had been prepared for Juan Domingo Perón officially to take total command in Argentina...
...mpora fell from power after only 50 days in office, at least in part because of his inability to control Argentina's spiraling urban violence. Cámpora had promised conditional amnesty to political prisoners, many of whom were confessed terrorists. He also heeded demands that all prisoners not only be granted amnesty but also be given full pardons. About 500 prisoners from ten prisons were subsequently released...
Soon Cámpora's weakness returned to haunt him; Argentina's plague of kidnapings rose, as did the amount of ransom demanded. An even worse blow came last month when a bloody shoot-out between left-and right-wing Peronist factions left 34 dead and 342 wounded, ruining what was to have been a triumphant homecoming for Perón (TIME, July...
...ouster, as did moderate party members within the Justicialist movement. The only major opposition to Perón came from left-wing Peronist youth, who feared that a sudden change of heads of government would signal a shift to the right and thus scuttle their chance of turning Argentina toward Marxism. They denounced the "right-wing coup" and briefly occupied three colleges at Buenos Aires University...