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...discernment and honesty, Dean J. A. Bonilla Atiles of the University of Santo Domingo's law school refused to plump for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's reelection...
Some time before the election of Juan Domingo Peron to the Argentine Presidency, the U.S. State Department decided that a Peronista government was intolerable to American interests. Working from this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point...
...Army actually plumped for democracy? Or was it so sure that Strong Man Juan Domingo Perón would win anyhow that it could stage an honest election without risk? Or had Perón himself, confident in victory, decided that an outwardly fair election would be his best answer to charges of fascism? And if the election had been fair, was it not possible that, despite Perón's apparent strength, the Democratic Union's candidate José Tamborini might be the victor after...
This week Tamborini supporters taunted the Strong Man's descamisados (shirtless ones) with a timely twist on Juan Domingo Peron's middle name and the Sunday, Feb. 24 election date: "Domingo [Spanish for Sunday] will fall on the 24th...
That Juan Domingo Perón and the Argentine Government favored the Nazis was hardly news. Outspoken old Cordell Hull had said that a year and a half ago. But the very bluntness of the U.S. Blue Book charge that Perón & Co. had actually conspired with the Nazis, the chapter & verse on names, places and methods profoundly shocked the Americas. Argentines seemed stunned...