Word: argentina
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Fraga (gloweringly) : No, we haven't had wars recently in Argentina...
...began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little support Argentina's tiny (estimated membership: 100,000) Communist Party could offer. In the end, it was given just the same...
Frondizi's massive miscalculation not only jeopardized his own future, it jeopardized democracy in Argentina. It was bad enough for him to deny office to men legally elected; it was worse still for a President to revoke an election on the orders of the military. Throughout the hemisphere, people were shocked at the turn of events in a nation as presumably stable as Argentina. In Washington, the first reaction was that the Alliance for Progress had been dealt a severe blow. Had it not backed the wrong man? The Kennedy Administration's second reaction was not so alarmist...
Britain's touring Prince Philip arrived in town and was given a state dinner by Frondizi as if nothing untoward were happening. But the irrepressible Duke of Edinburgh saw an opportunity to read Argentina's War Secretary, General Rosendo Fraga, a little lecture...
...share a common letdown feeling that a promising convalescence from dictator ship had been harshly interrupted. But there was also a feeling, among contentious and proud rivals, that a nation's continuity must be preserved, and that this took precedence over individual ambitions and disagreements. The situation in Argentina could still get out of hand, though at week's end, many were resolved that it must not. Almost everyone seemed to understand that the operation they were trying to perform was very close to the heart...