Word: frondizi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flash of Rebellion. After Per&243;n the vivo, Frondizi-the austere, finger-wagging intellectual-was an emotional frustration. The next-to-youngest of 14 children born to an immigrant Italian bridge builder, Frondizi was a shy, unexceptional youth, who showed his first flash of spirit in 1930 against then Dictator Jose Uri-buru. Frondizi completed a six-year law course in three, with honors. But on graduation day he stood on the platform, and refused to accept his honors certificate "from a government put in power and maintained by military force...
Through the Perón years, Frondizi was in open opposition, addressing furtive knots of anti-Perónistas in Buenos Aires streets. But his strength lay in mastery of political maneuver within the Radical Party. In 1956, after Pern fell, Frondizi split the party into two nearly equal segments-Intransigents and People's Radicals-and became the Intransigents' candidate for President. That he eventually won was largely owing to a shadowy political adviser named Rogelio Frigerio, a successful businessman (he owns a nationwide chain of dry-goods stores) who was once a Communist sympathizer, later cooperated with...
...that victory would go to whichever Radical faction won the most Perónista votes; he went off to visit Per&243;n. In other elections, the ex-dictator had commanded his supporters to cast blank protest ballots; after Frigerio's visit, he ordered them to vote for Frondizi...
Once in the presidency, Frondizi cast off all pre-election commitments to adopt economic determinism, heart and soul. "I have always dreamed of building a modern, well-developed nation of my country," he said. "No consideration of personal welfare or convenience-no family, political party or friend can stop me." Austere by Comparison. The post-Per&243;n economic problems were immense...
...Frondizi's prescription of austerity 'was austere only by comparison with Per&243;nista days. Subsidies were lifted from food, the peso was freed to seek a realistic level, wage increases were tied to productivity...