Word: junta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them where he was. He had gone. Nineteen days after he vaulted to power as Provisional President, the silver-tongued mathematics professor, who boasted he could unleash a "steam roller" of black supporters, fell without a shot fired. He went meekly into exile, and was replaced by a military junta...
...liberal constitutional monarchy with a relatively free press and an effective rather than a puppet Cortes. Most of them favored a constitutional monarchy with Don Juan or his son Juan Carlos on the throne as figurehead and real power at least temporarily in the hands of an army junta. Hitherto they had been concerned only about post-Franco Spain. Now increasingly there was talk that Franco himself, if he did nothing to relinquish some of his authority, might not last in power until his death...
...Rule by Junta. President Aramburu does not want to be a strongman, and he is by no means free to be one. He is the head of the military junta which includes Admiral Rojas and the Ministers of Army, Navy and Air. The junta makes the government's decisions by majority vote (until elections, there is no Congress). Aramburu guides the debate and breaks ties. Any single member, if he balks hard enough, can veto any measure. And if the junta were to tell Aramburu that he had lost its confidence, he would step out at once...
...particularly tedious Cabinet session, he murmured something about having to leave "for urgent reasons," went to a side door of the Casa Rosada and hailed a taxi. He rode to a teashop, had a leisurely dish of ice cream, taxied back to the office, gravely rejoined the session. Junta meetings seem more natural to him. Aramburu greets his high military counselors casually: "Hello, Rojas. Afternoon, Admiral. General, how are you?" To them he remains "Senor Presidente." There is always some banter and small talk before the junta gets down to running Argentina...
...Other Man. A nuisance that often faces the junta from afar is Juan Peron in exile...