Word: justicialist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...referendum on her leadership. Several leftist groups banded together to form the Authentic Party. Running on a virulently anti-Isabel platform, the Authentics drew impressively large crowds to their campaign rallies and there were predictions of an electoral debacle for Mrs. Perón's right-of-center Justicialist Party. When the results were in, the Justicialists had polled 74,326 votes, the moderate Radical Civic Union 62,767 and the leftist coalition a meager...
...they are torn between a concern for protecting civil rights and a recognition that terrorism is getting out of hand and must be stopped. The debates have already produced the first open rupture in Perón's coalition with the expulsion from the Justicialist Party of eight leftist Deputies for refusing to support the penal code's tough new anti-terrorist measures...
...revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What this means in effect is a purge of the party's roilsome leftists...
...side and his political opposition is both divided and ineffectual. The immediate danger is that Perón's get-tough policy against the left could backfire, plunging Argentina into a bitter round of ideological warfare. In recent weeks, there have been new clashes within the Justicialist movement between left-and right-wing Peronists. Last week the armed forces came under attack. A member of the general staff of the infantry was kidnaped by the Marxist-Leninist People's Revolutionary Army, which announced that attacks against the "repressive armed forces" will continue...
...biding his time in exile in Madrid. Almost daily the country is racked by a new assassination, kidnaping, riot or strike. Since the Perón regime began with a hand-picked surrogate last May, more than 15 leading members of Perón's own Justicialist Party have been brutally murdered. Only last month José Rucci, one of Perón's closest associates and the head of the giant 3.1 million-member General Confederation of Labor, was riddled with 26 bullets. In the past two weeks, two other labor leaders were also murdered. Several...