Word: peron
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal opposition comes from an even more extreme group: the Croatian Party of Rights, which unabashedly honors the memory of the fascist, Hitler-backed state that flourished briefly during World...