Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young Peruvian politician says, "it is very difficult to get to the palace by political means; the usual way is by money or guns." The continent has been much dominated by the military. Youth counts for little. When the late Juan Perón won the presidency of Argentina last fall he was 77, and his closest rival was 69. The very frequency of military coups makes party politics an unattractive career. The best of the young either go into private business or the law, or they join leftist guerrilla movements...
...From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita Perón, who took over the presidency last week on the death of her husband...
With last week's death of Peron, the fragile equilibrium in Argentina will very probably explode and the violence escalate. The Traitors helps us understand...
...Argentine worker, whom the makers of The Traitors are addressing, Barrera's story is sufficient in itself to make him recognize how miserably workers can be exploited by his supposed leaders. It is a common knowledge in Argentina that, beginning with the rule of Gen. Juan D. Peron in 1945, when workers received a wide array of economic and social benefits, trade unions became increasingly conservative until they were virtually at the beck and call of the government. Throughout the spectacularly popular decade of Peron's regime, and throughout the military rule that followed, Argentine workers lost their autonomous leaders...
...group of workers organizing themselves according to revolutionary principles and asserting their demands by forcing their way into Barrera's victory celebration and machine-gunning him. This is something of a piece of wishful fantasy on the part of the filmmakers, who certainly are aware that radical agitation in Argentina, as in the U.S., stems not from workers but from middle-class students and intellectuals, much like themselves. The Montoneros, the Marxist guerrilla group responsible for the assassination of union chiefs in Argentina, includes few workers...