Word: mendoza
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Give & Take. Soon trans-Andean telephone wires were humming. González spent an hour telling President Perón about the plot. Perón quickly sent to Santiago for more details. When Cunja and Jakasa deplaned at Mendoza, Argentine police hustled them away. Perón's Government announced that both would return to Yugoslavia...
...sugar was being cut and corn harvested. The beans of coffee and cacao were stripped from highland groves in the northwest. But, as usual, the rusty soil of Venezuela had not produced enough. Given sufficient agricultural machinery from abroad, it might be five years, announced Secretary of Agriculture Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, before the nation could feed itself...
Stephen A. Fischer-Galati '45, recently elected president, led the discussion which followed. Other officers who were elected early this month are Peter C. Cotzias '46, Membership Officer; Carlos de la M. Mendoza 1 P.A., Secretary; Pesi R. Masani 4G, Member in Charge of Forms; and Alfonso SantaCruz, Treasurer...
...program for rejuvenating the Army by kicking out its more senescent generals-a crusade for which it is easy to inspire younger officers in almost any army. Behind the crusade appeared a new force-the GOU-which made its debut in Colonel Perón's garrison at Mendoza. Soon the GOU's influence had permeated the Argentine Army. The GOU's leading ideas were irresistible to soldiers: the Army was the purest, noblest thing in Argentina; it was the group best fitted to rule the country; it was the instrument of Argentine destiny...
...military biographers, his associates say that he was a good soldier, a strict disciplinarian who was liked by his subordinates. Always in his mind and on his lips was the conviction that the Army was the purest, finest, most Argentine thing in Argentina. While in charge of troops in Mendoza in 1941, he started a "crusade for spiritual renovation"-which worked out as a scheme to staff the Argentine Government with idealistic, hard-working and deeply nationalistic young Army officers...