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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Popular Christian Party and no kin to Chile's Salvador Allende) would become interim President of the republic until new elections were held. In the first days following Perón's funeral, Isabelita showed no signs of wanting to exercise her constitutional option. The idea of being Latin America's first Presidenta was obviously a powerful pull. Still undecided, however, was whether she would be astute enough to withstand the divisive forces known as Peronism...
Perón fled, first to Paraguay and then to other Latin American countries. He finally settled in Spain in 1960. There he lived in a $500,000 villa. Despite rumors that he had sacked Argentina's treasury, Perón's apologists insisted that his supporters bankrolled his regal lifestyle in exile...
They soon began traveling together, living luxurious lives that took them from one Latin American city to another, until 1960, when they settled in Madrid. The following year they were married. During the years in Spain, Isabelita became indispensable to her husband as his confidante, secretary, nurse, dietician and even occasional chauffeur...
...Traitors (Los Traidores) is the third film released here in the past year that was written, acted, and directed by Latin Americans. Like the Cuban films, Memories of Underdevelopment and Lucia, The Traitors can be expected to present a more integrated, more involved picture of life to the south. Unlike the two others, however, which were directed by independent filmmakers interested as much in cinematography as in politics, this film--a product of the Grupo Cine de la Base, a revolutionary collective of Argentine filmmakers, actors, workers, and students--is unmistakably political in purpose: Educating Argentine workers about the corruption...
...American, too, the reader of sketchy newspaper stories about the internecine strife among Argentine labor's right and left wings, the story of Barrera helps give a fuller understanding of the tensions involved. But the film offers more to the American viewer, an added dimension to which the native Latin American would probably be oblivious. It is the same quality, though more muted, that is so impressive in the vibrant scenes of Brazilian life in Black Orpheus. The Traitors, with its filmed scenes in the crowded neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, captures the struggle of life waged by these impoverished workers...