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...thing, the generals and admirals were adamant. The Per&243;nistas, though democratically elected in one of the freest elections in Argentine history, must never take office. In no position to resist, Frondizi agreed, and found the powers in the constitution to make it legal.* He then appointed "interventors" to govern five Argentine provinces, including populous, highly industrialized Buenos Aires, fired his civilian Cabinet and proposed a new coalition government, half of whose members would be military men. When Frondizi took this enforced solution to the People's Radicals, whose support he would need in the fractured Congress, they...
Back from the Barricades. It was a crucial moment of decision for Argentina. The nation was dismayed at events, and tense, yet on all sides there was a curious unwillingness to push to the barricades. Frondizi made no emotional appeals to the people; the army kept most of its troops safely inside their barracks. Even the Per&243;nista leaders, not wanting a full test of strength that would result in their forceful suppression, behaved themselves. Per&243;nistas trumpeted their "triumph of the people" but the mobs were ordered to stay home, and they obeyed...
...nation's economic ruin was never fully understood by the descamisados Perón left behind; all they knew was that their heroic Caudillo had been driven out. It was left to the interim military government of General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu to assess the damage-and to Arturo Frondizi, elected in 1958, to attempt some permanent repairs...
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...