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...weeks since the followers of ex-Dictator Juan D. Perón scored a surprise victory in national elections, Argentina has been a land living under military rule, preserving only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron...
...there might be a shooting match among them. War Secretary Enrique Rauch wanted to go slowly and seek a democratic means of moving against the Peronistas. But General Raúl Poggi, the tough-minded army commander in chief, who led the initial coup in March against Frondizi, insisted on a complete military takeover. Tempers flared, and Rauch phoned the Presidential Palace to say: "I'm going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself in the War Secretariat building, posting machine gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called...
...city, talking to government officials, housewives in shopping queues, workers. Putting together the material from Halper, Scott and others, Latin American Specialist Peter Bird Martin wrote the story. This is his seventh cover story on Latin American figures; the last one, just a month ago, told of Arturo Frondizi's collapsing regime in Argentina...
...Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina's military for overthrowing President Arturo Frondizi. Cried Castro: "Who is Señor Betancourt but a murderer of workers and students? And how does he react in the face...
...which had supported Frondizi and had hoped to make Argentina a showcase for the Alliance for Progress, was in a quandary. How deep was obvious from President Kennedy's answer to a question at his press conference: "Well, I think the events there are still uncertain, and now from the reports still not clear enough, and I think, therefore, it would be unwise, lacking that kind of precise information, for us to make comment at this time on the events in another country." A top State Department official interpreted: "We're waiting to see what happens." Ecuador & Peru...