Word: framini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lieutenant in Argentina. A onetime navy mechanic, Vandor drifted into the powerful, 275,000-member Metallurgical Workers Union in the early 1950s, quietly made his way up through the union hierarchy, and was soon reaching for control of the entire Peronista movement. His chief opponent was Andres Framini, 50, head of the 100,000 member Textile Workers Union and longtime power within the General Labor Command...
Wolf at the Door. Framini and Vandor are a study in contrasts. Framini, the stolid embodiment of the old Peronismo, is boastful, loudly emotional, disorganized; his course is "revolution" and an "open fight." Vandor is more flexible-and smart enough to know that Peron could never rule Argentina as dictator again. He believes in "Peronismo without Peron," talks "negotiation" and "legalismo...
Known as El Lobo, the wolf, Vandor quickly proved his cunning against Framini. Using his own union as a base, he pumped funds into poorer unions to win friends and influence people. In a series of angry union fights, Vandor's supporters took over in more and more unions. By last May, Vandor was strong enough to beat Framini in an election for control of the Peronistas...
...people in these provinces had every opportunity to repudiate us,'' Frondizi said, "but they did not." Despite the hopeful signs, Per&243;nista rallies grew to impressive size. "Per&243;n or death!" slogans appeared on streetcar islands and walls. Framini, although an anti-Communist and a practicing Roman Catholic, began campaigning against Frondizi for selling out to "Yankee imperialism." Che Guevara's Red mother Celia showed up at Per&243;nista rallies, asking that"the voice of Cuba, sister of Per&243;nism, be heard." The Per&243;nistas had no need to ask what little...
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