Word: castillos
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...year-old frontier dispute is heating up again, with anti-U. S. elements in Peru claiming that the U. S. has promised its support to Ecuador in return for bases on the Galapagos Islands. (A lie, says Washington. ) In Bolivia pro-U. S. President General Enrique Penaranda del Castillo faces trouble from a Leftist front...
...Finance Minister obliged by tendering his resignation last week. He made it stick in spite of Acting President Ramón S. Castillo's refusal to accept it. Juan Pueblo was not sure whether the resignation was a confession of defeat or a maneuver to pose as a martyred patriot. Castillo blamed the Radicals for refusing to make peace, threatened to dissolve Congress and rule by duodécimo.* The Radical Chamber of Deputies cracked back by refusing to vote on the budget, the Pinedo Plan or anything else until the election frauds were investigated. Angry shouts of "Buffoon...
...week's end, Acting President Castillo offered to put discussion of the frauds on the Congressional agenda, a step which would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
...elect a Governor who as a matter of practical politics will control the choice of those 42 electors. When the polls closed, everybody thought the Ortiz candidate had won an easy victory. But a few hours later the Conservative-controlled election board announced the victory of the Castillo-Justo candidate...
Though the Province of Santa Fe broke out into a rash of angry rioting and gun fights, though the Ministry of Interior was swamped with protests, Castillo sat tight, the first round safely his. Ortiz, instead of sending a Federal interventor to insure an honest election as he did last March in Buenos Aires, sat tight too. If the Conservatives can repeat this week in the Mendoza elections, they will pick nearly enough electors to insure victory in 1943. If Ortiz lets them, the fight will be over...