Word: argentina
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...mpora; José Gregorio Espejo, once head of the General Confederation of Labor; John William Cooke, last boss of the Peronista Party; and Pedro Andrés Gomiz, former director of the nationalized Argentine oil industry. But it was two others who were most remembered back in Argentina. One was boyishly handsome Guillermo Patricio Kelly, top bullyboy of Perón's street-fighting Alianza greyshirts. The other was Jorge Antonio, biggest moneyman of Perón's regime...
...cash quickly eased the rigors of incarceration. The cells were provided with comfortable beds; there was wine aplenty, after-hours dinner parties for their friends, and free use of the penitentiary telephones. Jorge & Co. paid some of Chile's highest-priced lawyers at least $56,000 to fight Argentina's extradition attempts...
...granted asylum to him and four of his friends on the ground that the offenses they were charged with were political. But it balked at Greyshirt Kelly, ruled that the charges of murder, robbery and blackmail against Kelly were both well-founded and nonpolitical; Kelly was ordered returned to Argentina...
...sterling in the Suez crisis, the fund gave the United Kingdom a dollar loan of $561.5 million and stand-by credit of $739 million, its biggest single deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers...
...Slipping Backward." Aramburu scornfully blamed Perón's dizzy, spendthrift economic policy. "If Argentina today had the foreign trade it had in 1943," said Aramburu, "it would be the first country of South America." Instead, workers continue to demand wage hikes without boosting productivity, creating a "vicious circle" of rising prices. Unlike Brazil, which is developing "great industries with modern techniques and foreign financial aid." too many Argentines still spout "wornout slogans about nationalism, about the oligarchs, about statism. We are slipping backwards every...