Word: luisito
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...Luisito, as Uruguayans call Batlle Berres, and his fellow councilors will face grave problems right away. The country's wool is selling well, but its wheat must compete against other countries' surpluses, and its famous herds of cattle have been depleted by drought. The country's left-of-center, welfare-state laws provide subsidies for both wheat farmers and cattlemen, although the public debt is already $387 million-high for a country of only 2,500,000 people. Workers are feeling the pinch of inflation, with prices nearly 2½ times greater than in 1943. Strikes have...
...whose social laws gave Uruguay its name for progressive democracy. He has been in politics since he was 25. But politics has not been his only activity. He has had a radio station, Radio Ariel, over which many an Argentine and Paraguayan exile has broadcast. Every afternoon Luisito goes to the Café Montevideo on Avenida 18 Julio to gossip over coffee. He drives his car at high speed, likes to box. After hours, he takes his ease with his wife and three children at a small farm outside the capital...
...Luisito is expected to carry on Berreta's moderate line, but not everybody is sure that he can handle the right-wing Herrerista opposition as skillfully as the old man could. Like most Uruguayans he is friendly to the U.S., though last week he expressed reservations about the U.S. hemisphere arms plan. On a trip to Argentina last fortnight he paid his first visit to Perón. He thought he should meet the man, he explained, whose wife was soon going to pay an important visit to Uruguay...
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