Word: argentinas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American bankers, who have $8 billion in outstanding loans to Argentina, applauded Alfonsin's program. A syndicate of more than 300 banks might extend an additional $4.2 billion to the country. Declared Terence Canavan, an executive vice president at Chemical Bank: "This is the most daring reform I have seen in Latin America since the start of the debt crisis...
...leaders charged that the wage freeze hurts their members, and one union official openly threatened to sabotage the economic plan. "We have no choice but to take some kind of action," said Raul Ravitti, the secretary of the railroad union. That attitude has blocked attempts to halt inflation in Argentina for years...
...Stroessner's personal physician, as well as the dictator's special adviser in a genocidal campaign against Paraguay's Ache Indians. Like some dark spirit, he seemed to be everywhere at once, often hidden behind sunglasses; he was sighted in Bolivia, Uruguay and Chile, and in the jungles of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay...
...former Nazis found refuge in South America after the war. Protected and organized by a loosely knit network known as Kameradenwerk (Comrades' Enterprise), some of them have been living under their own names, and in considerable prosperity. Roughly 300 reportedly went to Paraguay. Eichmann and others lived in Argentina. Klaus Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon," made his home in Bolivia before he was extradited to France in 1983. Two major catches of former Nazi bigwigs occurred in Brazil. In 1967 Sao Paulo police seized Franz Stangl, who was allegedly responsible for the deaths of some 400,000 victims...
...however, the doctor was beginning to feel the pressure of his past. Spotted that year by an Auschwitz survivor, he left Freiburg, making his way to Italy and from there through Spain to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, he was assured of a warm reception: President Juan Domingo Peron was known to be tolerant of former Nazis and had promised to protect them...