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...months since President Arturo Frondizi was overthrown, Argentina has had: Five Ministers of the Interior. Three Ministers of Foreign Affairs. Four Defense Ministers. Three Economics Ministers. Five War Secretaries. Four Navy Secretaries. Three Air Secretaries. Five Treasury Secretaries. And an economy in a mess. The number of Argentine bankruptcies increased 46% last year, the cost of living rose 50%, the peso dropped 67%, and the gross national product actually slipped 3.9%. Argentina's wheat crop and meat production-the country's two main exports-finished disappointingly low, and the nation's balance-of-payments deficit soared...
...second revolution was launch-almost immediately upon Castro's coming to power. Draper classifies it as a member of the Communist family of revolutions, since it turned against the middle class democrats who had overthrown Batista and began to regiment the proletariat and peasantry. It proceeded so far during Castro's first year in power that the Hubert Matos affair late in 1959 signaled the "point of no return...
...Guatemala City. By 6 a.m., the army went on the radio with an announcement for Guatemala's 3,800,000 people. President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 67, the cagy old soldier who had only a year to go before completing his elected six-year term of office, had been overthrown. In command of a military junta was Defense Minister Enrique Peralta Azurdia, 54, who was assuming control for the "good of the nation...
This done, Nasser finished dressing and went downstairs. The phone rang again, long distance from Baghdad. President Abdul Salam Aref, who only four weeks before had overthrown another anti-Nasser regime in Iraq, solicitously asked what Nasser intended doing about Syria. Nasser said that he would recognize a rebel government as soon as it was formed. Aref delicately responded that of course. Egypt should be the first state to grant recognition, promised that Iraq would follow suit five minutes later...
...students' self-confidence has been strengthened by political events since the war. In that period, two dictators have been overthrown, Gomez in 1945 and Perez Jimenez in 1958, both by revolutionary movements that began at the university...