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Toward other neighbors Perón's weapons were different, his aims the same. A month and a half ago Argentina abruptly closed the Paraguayan frontier. The reason given: a yellow-fever outbreak in Paraguay. It turned out to be malaria, but Paraguayans got the point, agreed to a customs union with Argentina. Bolivia was already on the hook: the Perón-minded Villarroel government felt strong enough to crack down on the Democratic Front opposition, jail leaders and handcuff the press. Chile, with a long Argentine frontier, read that Perón had come...
...military government has not come near balancing its budget since it seized power nearly three years ago. In that time the budget doubled, with military expenditures accounting for nearly half of the total. Peron's schedule for air-base construction alone-most of it along the Brazilian and Paraguayan borders-will cost $250,000,000. Till last week the Central Bank would lend the Government no more than a tenth of its average revenue, or about $25,000,000 a year. Nationalization fixed that...
...founded his diplomatic reputation on his settlement of the Chaco war (1932-35) between Paraguay and Bolivia. After three years of feckless negotiations, Braden took to the radio, bluntly addressed the Paraguayan and Bolivian people over the delegates' heads. A settlement followed quickly...
What finally burned Juan Plate to a crisp, it appeared, was what Chief of Staff Aranda had to say about a proposal to build schools for 74,000 Paraguayan children. The Colonel's answer: the Army's needs were more urgent; the children could wait. The Army would see to their education (the boys, anyhow) when they...
...glad news apparently leaked. For when Union Oil began negotiations for a contract with the Paraguayan Government, it met stiff competition from British and U.S. companies, and from the Argentine Government. Finally, the company signed a complicated agreement. It would pay an annual rental, and would give Paraguay up to 15% of any oil it produced...