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Chauffeur Teodoro Pérez was the complainant. During last month's inauguration of President Tomás Berreta, he picked up three U.S. bluejackets from the good-will U.S. naval squadron led by the cruiser Fresno. The sailormen slugged him and robbed...
Juan Perón would not control Uruguay. That was the decision of one million Uruguayans in this week's national elections (TIME, Nov. 25). Tomás Berreta, 70-year-old vineyardist, had easily defeated Luis Alberto de Herrera, crusty pro-Perón nationalist and archenemy of continental solidarity with the U.S. It was more than a squeak-through: in the count Berreta took an early lead, led Herrera in a ratio of three...
...President Berreta, who would take office on March 1, had had a first taste of political brimstone back in 1903-04. As a patrol leader, he skirmished on the side of famed Liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez in Uruguay's great civil war, was captured by the rebels and almost executed. As a Batlle follower in the Colorado Party, Berreta contributed to the hardheaded progressiveness that has characterized Uruguay for the past 40 years...
...complexities of a Uruguayan election were enough to make even a Frenchman's head swim. The predominant; Colorado (Red) Party-liberal, democratic, and international-was split into four groups, each with its own presidential aspirant. The leader of the Batllista faction, suntanned ex-farmer Tomás Berreta, 70, had the best chance to win. The Blanco (White) Party had dissidents, too, but for the moment they were united behind the presidential candidacy of tall, white-thatched Luis Alberto de Herrera, 73. Herrera, "last of the South American caudillos" ("chiefs"), had for 30 years given the Blancos their nationalistic...