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Thirty years ago, the world was different. In 1976, a coup d’état introduced military dictatorship in Argentina for the sixth time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Per??³n two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign...
Always political, he was condemned at home for his opposition to Juan Domingo Per??³n’s regime while at the same time receiving praise from the international community. But Borges always said he just wanted “to be modern and to be Argentine...
...Vice President, she has presided at Cabinet meetings and sessions of the Argentine Senate, now speaking out boldly instead of whispering shyly as she used to do, thus confusing her early audiences. On the stump to support Per??n's "social pact" economic program, she lashed out at black marketeers and hoarders. Last month, with a hairdresser and assistant hairdresser in tow, she made state visits to Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and the Pope...
This increasingly impressive public performance eventually stilled much of the early criticism of Isabelita, especially by old Peronistas, who resented her obvious attempt to imitate Eva Duarte, Per??n's immensely popular second wife...
...question her background. Born in Argentina's impoverished La Rioja province, the daughter of a bank executive, she left home in her 20s to join a troupe of traveling folk dancers. In 1956, after finishing a performance in a Panama City cabaret, she was introduced to the exiled Per?...