Word: argentinas
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Most Latin American dictators leave office the same way they came in-at the end of a gun. Argentina's General Alejandro Lanusse has taken the highly unusual step of voluntarily resigning as President, after allowing the people to choose-by ballot-his civilian successor. In a remarkably candid interview with TIME Correspondent Charles Eisendrath in Buenos Aires last week, Lanusse explained why he turned the reins of power over to Héctor Cámpora, the protégé of ex-Dictator Juan...
...Buenos Aires had been in a swaggering, festive mood. General Alejandro Lanusse, the outgoing military president, prudently avoided difficulty by using a helicopter. It was just as well: violence began when one young Perónist descamisado (shirtless one) pounded on the limousine bearing two other members of Argentina's military junta to inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might escalate into full-scale riots, Cámpora issued...
Before leaving Washington two weeks ago, he grandly described his swing through Mexico, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina and Jamaica as "the most important trip to Latin America by a Secretary of State in the past 40 years." In fact, it may end up as a diplomatic fiasco. If so, Washington will have to bear a large share of the blame...
Feeling generated by the assassination ran deep, particularly among Lanusse's military compatriots; they have felt that he has not done enough to combat a wave of urban terror that has swept Argentina recently. Since the elections two months ago, there have been 18 reported kidnapings (an average of one every three days), as well as four assassinations. Most of the terrorism has been the work of the People's Revolutionary Army, which wants to create such chaos that the military will be forced to stay in power, thereby preparing the way for a leftist-inspired popular revolution...
After the imposition of martial law, Argentina was singularly quiet. All public gatherings were banned, except for sport and theatrical events. Newspapers and magazines were forbidden to report on terrorist activities. Federal and provincial courts were replaced by tough military courts, which were instructed to impose the death penalty on anyone convicted of kidnaping...