Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ominous rumors had been circulating throughout Argentina: President Héctor Cámpora and his Cabinet would resign, and former Dictator Juan Perón would be in position to assume the presidency. At precisely 10:30 a.m. last Friday, the rumors became reality. Cámpora appeared on nationwide television and radio to announce "the mandate which General Perón gave us, we now return to him, because he is the leader of this great national, popular, Christian and revolutionary movement...
Thus history in troubled Argentina came full circle. Less than a month after his return from 18 years of enforced exile abroad, the way had been prepared for Juan Domingo Perón officially to take total command in Argentina...
...mpora fell from power after only 50 days in office, at least in part because of his inability to control Argentina's spiraling urban violence. Cámpora had promised conditional amnesty to political prisoners, many of whom were confessed terrorists. He also heeded demands that all prisoners not only be granted amnesty but also be given full pardons. About 500 prisoners from ten prisons were subsequently released...
...Argentina. After 18 years in the wilderness, Juan Peron is back, bringing with him his distinctive brand of liberal fascism. But Peron's support extends curiously leftward, and his assumption to power may start to break up Argentinian politics, frozen by a decade of military dictatorship...
...organization's move into the area of political torture was hastened by the fact that such repression seems to be spreading. The Soviet Union's habit of putting dissenters into mental institutions, for example, is now being copied in Argentina. Behavior-altering techniques-like torturing a prisoner while he is being shown slides of his family-are showing up in Brazil. (The prisoner comes to associate his wife and children with pain-and the effects seem to endure.) In Greece, a favorite technique is the falanga, in which the soles of the feet are beaten to a pulp...