Word: catterberg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radicals tried to downplay the resurgence of the blue collar-based Peronist movement. "We knew it was coming," said Edgardo Catterberg, a party pollster. "There was a national sense of unfulfilled expectations." At issue was the government's handling of the economy. Inflation, which was running in the single digits two years ago, is now nearly 14%. Alfonsin's determination to make regular interest payments on Argentina's $54 billion foreign debt also continues to stir controversy. Addressing a business group late in the week, he cautioned, "We have lost the elections, but the tree has not fallen...
...sign decrees accusing the three past military juntas of human rights abuses that led to the deaths of at least 10,000 Argentines. His next step was to try to bring democratic procedures to the omnipotent labor unions that are the Perónists' power base. Explains Edgardo Catterberg, Alfonsín's adviser on public opinion: "If you want to create a democratic society, you have to have democratic unions." The attempt to proceed against the juntas has produced scant results beyond the detention of a few officers, although a newly established military tribunal has until...
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