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...answer to Question No. 1 is: Juan Domingo Perón. But who is Juan Domingo...
...real power in Argentina was a group of Army officers called the GOU.The initials stood for "Gobierno, Orden, Unidad" (Government, Order, Unity). But the GOU group was soon nicknamed "The Colonels." And it soon became clear that the Colonel of the Colonels was Juan Domingo Perón. He was Vice President, War Minister and Secretary of Labor and Welfare. If Americans had never heard of him, neither had many Argentines...
...last year's revolution the GOU realized the first two of its ideals. Ever since then it has bossed Argentina. But its dictatorship is headless. For though Perón is the GOU's strong man, nobody, not even Juan Domingo Perón, really bosses the GOU, which remains a chaotic town meeting of military prima donnas. Hence Argentina, though dominated by its Army, has never developed into a typical one-man military dictatorship...
Stronger & Stronger. For a while it looked like a State Department victory. But the State Department had not reckoned with Juan Domingo Perón. He put himself at the head of the extreme nationalists in the Army who felt that Argentine honor had been smirched because Ramirez had yielded to foreign pressure. Ramirez was forced to resign. Vice President Edelmiro Farrell, Perón's old friend and front man, moved up to the Presidency. Perón, stronger than ever, became Minister of War. The State Department's pressure play had simply increased...
Meanwhile the temper of the ultra-nationalist Army officers at the Campo Mayo barracks was rising. Word had spread that they recently met and decided to force out Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare...