Word: argentinas
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...three southernmost nations of Latin America were near political paralysis last week. Chile, already polarized by a conflict between left and right, was jarred by an abortive army coup. Widespread terrorism persisted in Argentina, following the return to Buenos Aires of ex-Dictator Juan Perón. In Uruguay, a successful military coup brought at least a temporary end to republican government. All in all, it was a sad and humiliating time for three countries that had seemed to embody many of the continent's best hopes for development and democracy...
...ARGENTINA: CHAOS AND CORPSES
Dividend Movement. The slaughter at the airport, cabled TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath, rose from the fact that "in important respects Argentina today resembles Germany just before Hitler. It has been ravaged by an inflation that has impoverished the workers and terrified the middle class. Fascists and Marxists have begun fighting in the streets. Millions of Argentines looked to the return of Perón for both change and national unity, but the battle near Ezeiza Airport shows that the Peronist movement is as deeply divided as Argentina itself...
Despite the ugly violence that marred his homecoming, despite the rumors that he himself was in failing health, Perón now appears to be at a peak of political power. Just last November, when he first returned briefly to Argentina from his refuge in Spain, he was snubbed by then President General Alejandro Lanusse, who used armed troops to keep crowds from greeting him at Ezeiza Airport. Disqualified from running for the presidency himself, Perón negotiated with politicians on both the left and the right, gathering the widest possible support for his puppet candidate, Héctor...
Terrorists, most audaciously those of the Trotskyite People's Revolutionary Army or ERP, have been staging kidnapings at the rate of one every 72 hours since the first of the year. Last month two Ford Motor Co. of Argentina employees were wounded by ERP gunmen, and under threat of further violence. Ford agreed to give $1,000,000 to hospitals and the poor. Within a fortnight of Perón's second homecoming, guerrillas kidnaped a West German clothing manufacturer, the American head of Firestone of Argentina, and a British banker. A $10 million ransom for the three...