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Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas, Lonardi's Vice President, who wants to try 273 former Perónista Congressmen for treason...
...envoy to the Vatican home for "consultations," and the Vatican reciprocated by summoning its apostolic nuncio to Rome for "consultations." The official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, labeled Perón's government "totalitarian." In an unconsciously comic gesture, intended as an affront to the pious, the Perónista Party announced the formation of a "lay order" of Sisters of Eva Perón, the President's late wife...
...several Presidents before Perón, and recognized by the nation's constitution. But Perón had not intervened an entire province for seven years, and Argentines assumed that he must have urgent reasons for the crackdown. According to stories floating about Buenos Aires, Perónista officials in the three provinces had gone in heavily for nepotism and graft, but last week Minister Borlenghi tried to dispel such unpleasant talk. "I want to make it clear," he said, "that none of the charges have to do with the honesty of the governments intervened." The trouble, Borlenghi explained...
...Argentina's political vocabulary "people's organizations" means the Perón-manipulated General Labor Confederation (C.G.T.) and the various Perónista associations of businessmen, professional men and students. In some cities and provinces, "people's organizations" meddle in government affairs, and local authorities sometimes resist the meddling. At Perón's closed-door meeting with provincial governors last month, spokesmen for the Perónista associations rapped several provincial officials for failing to pay "people's organizations" due heed. Aware that more than three provincial governments took verbal stonings at the meeting...
Such actions might have been laughed off by the Alemánistas as mere grandstand plays or as signs of the new President's personal eccentricities. But Ruiz Cortines soon showed that he was out to clean up government from top to bottom. He abruptly ordered all treasury payments stopped while government contracts were reexamined. His Communications Minister reported getting a bill for one 75-mile highway that had been registered as completed and even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called...