Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strong sympathy for Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, two governments that saw themselves as a "third way" between Communism and capitalism. After experiencing Mussolini's regime in the early 1940s?he observed Italian Alpine ski troops?Peron called il Duce "the greatest man of our century." He later turned Argentina into a haven for suspected war criminals...
Perón returned to Argentina in time to take part in the 1943 colonels' coup that overthrew the constitutional government of Ramón Castillo. Rewarded with the post of Secretary of Labor, he carefully cultivated a following among the working masses. Their support helped him survive another coup in 1945 and brought him the presidency in the election of 1946. He became an accomplished practitioner of crowd manipulation?staging mass demonstrations ?and propaganda. To gain control of the courts and universities, he fired judges and teachers suspected of favoring the political opposition. He harassed and imprisoned his opponents...
Perón fled, first to Paraguay and then to other Latin American countries. He finally settled in Spain in 1960. There he lived in a $500,000 villa. Despite rumors that he had sacked Argentina's treasury, Perón's apologists insisted that his supporters bankrolled his regal lifestyle in exile...
...factor in Argentine politics?increasingly so as the years passed and his legend became romanticized. Peronism soon claimed the loyalty of about half the population, a spectrum that included neofascists, far-left urban guerrillas, and trade unionists. From exile, the ousted President stayed in touch with his loyalists in Argentina through lengthy letters, taped messages and personal emissaries. He remained the most important single factor in Argentine politics. A succession of five military and three civilian governments found themselves unable to govern effectively, partly because of the discontent?and promise?fomented by Perón.' With each failure the alternative...
...appearance triggered a paroxysm of jubilation. Hundreds of thousands turned out to cheer him, but more than 100 were killed as rightist and leftist Peronistas ended up fighting each other. The violence was symbolic of Perón's last reign: he was too old and too ill to solve Argentina's festering problems...