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Though two of Latin America's biggest nations - Argentina and Brazil -are under stiff military dictatorship, the rest of Latin America is generally going its constitutional way. Last week three countries had new Presidents...
...anachronistic democratic regime, which had been proving its incapacity to deal with our numerous national problems, was bloodlessly overthrown by military coop. This was long overdue, given the chronic economic chaos, the growing social conflict, and the increasingly disruptive administrative disorder which racked the Illia Administration. Nobody in Argentina complained against the coup d'etat. On the contrary: there occurred a widespread feeling of relief and hopeful optimism. The Revolution, carried out by the heads of the Armed Forces to lead the country at a moment of national crisis. Ongania's government has since received spontaneous support, or at least...
...When Argentina's army ousted President Arturo Illia last June, it moved with the swiftness of a rifle bullet. Congress, the supreme court and all political parties were dissolved; all state governors were dismissed; and a three-man junta was installed, headed by Provisional President Juan Carlos Ongania, 52. Then suddenly all was quiet. Week after week, the nation waited for some signs of positive leadership. But all that came were some lofty, if vague, social and economic goals, a puritanical television attack on pornography-and not much else. By last week, Ongania had not even completed his Cabinet...
Last week, after an angry outcry throughout Argentina and the rest of Latin America, Ongania called his first press conference on television and stuck by his decree, announcing plans to reorganize the entire educational system. Moving on to other "concrete guidelines" for his government, Ongania made a few other points. Tax evasion, smuggling, and profiteering by food distributors would be implacably suppressed. Within 60 days, he promised, administrators of all state-owned enterprises would come up with a program for cutting costs. What is more, some of the enterprises might be returned to private hands. For one thing, said Ongania...
Richard G. King, research associate at the Center and director of the Office of Graduate and Career Plans, is now in Argentina, and it is probable that he, too, is arranging for a study project...