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Strange Bedfellows. In large part, the wave of violence is a consequence of President Juan Perón's death on July 1. When his widow Isabel succeeded him as President, her most pressing task was to maintain some semblance of unity among the diverse political factions that had supported her husband. Peronism had always been more of a personality cult than a cohesive political ideology. With El Lider gone, the danger was that his followers, who ranged from conservative businessmen to radical students and unionists, would realize what impossibly strange bedfellows they made. The inevitable splintering...
Earlier this month the Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla organization that helped return Perón to power in 1973, accused Isabel of "harboring imperialists and oligarchs" and then declared war on her government. Issuing their "War Communiqué No. 1" at a clandestine press conference, the Montoneros threatened a terrorist campaign of arson, assassination, sabotage and bombing. As a chilling reminder of their past exploits, they also released a detailed report of how they kidnaped former President Pedro Eugenic Aramburu in 1970, stuffed him into a truckload of hay, and transported him to a ranch outside Buenos Aires, where...
...What was good for General Perón will be good for me. Neither at home nor abroad will the national line vary so much as a whit." Thus did Isabel Perón, 43, open her first formal Cabinet meeting in Government House last week, one week after the death of her husband and predecessor. To emphasize her plea of no change, she confirmed as her private secretary Conservative José López Rega, who had held the same position under her husband and is also Minister of Social Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed...
...Isabel's actions were a characteristically Peronist performance. Compromise, giving a little here to get a little there, a dramatic personal appearance-these typified the style of Juan Perón. Judging by her first few days, the old leader had passed his ability on to the former cabaret dancer who is now Latin America's first female head of state...
Evita's successor as the President's wife, Isabel, 43 (see box page 75), acted as principal mourner?and as Vice President, she succeeded Perón in office. Isabelita had been in Europe on an official tour when Perón was taken ill. She flew home hurriedly after receiving reports of his declining health. In a weekend address to the nation, she announced that until he recovered she was temporarily assuming his duties as "Chief Magistrate of the nation." Two days later, Isabelita returned to television and radio to inform the nation that "a real apostle of peace and union...