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...Argentina. After 18 years in the wilderness, Juan Peron is back, bringing with him his distinctive brand of liberal fascism. But Peron's support extends curiously leftward, and his assumption to power may start to break up Argentinian politics, frozen by a decade of military dictatorship...
...nightclub performer in Panama. On the other side of el Lider is Lopecito-Jose Lopez Rega-a former army corporal who was elevated to Minister of Social Welfare because of his skill in reading the stars, having selected the days of Perón's two returns to Argentina...
...background, Eisendrath adds, is the mummified corpse of Evita, "the radio announcer who became successively the saint's mistress, his political manager, second wife and, finally, in death, his greatest spiritual asset. The compelling allure of the corpse, which is reportedly being transported to Argentina, is reflected by numerous posters of the dead woman. 'Evita returns,' they proclaim, 'dead or alive!' " In the days ahead, Perón may need all the help he can get. Unless he can move quickly to end the violence, his government's resolve to restore stability in Argentina...
Already, foreign businessmen fear to set foot inside the country, and many of those there have decided to flee rather than risk becoming targets for the guerrillas. There is an even more ominous note: the price rollbacks on consumer goods designed to control Argentina's spiraling inflation are so steep that some foreign-owned companies may be forced to follow their executives out of the country...
...organization's move into the area of political torture was hastened by the fact that such repression seems to be spreading. The Soviet Union's habit of putting dissenters into mental institutions, for example, is now being copied in Argentina. Behavior-altering techniques-like torturing a prisoner while he is being shown slides of his family-are showing up in Brazil. (The prisoner comes to associate his wife and children with pain-and the effects seem to endure.) In Greece, a favorite technique is the falanga, in which the soles of the feet are beaten to a pulp...