Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stains on his military honor," a court of generals last week threw Juan Peron out of the Argentine army and forbade him "forever" to wear its uniform. Some of the stains: last June's church-burnings; the "waves of idolatry" that Peron permitted for himself ("towns, houses, schools, prizes and even a province were given his name"); and "relations with a minor"-namely, Peron's bobby-soxer mistress Nelly Rivas (TIME, Oct. 10), with whom he "cohabited for two years in the presidential palace," starting when Nelly was only...
...Lonardi reported to his people last week on the state of the country's economy^ Argentina, he said, is like "a man eaten up by cancer, who looks healthy and capable of work until he suddenly falls down dead." The shocking facts of what had happened under Juan Peron...
...Exports-the sales abroad of meat, wool and grains that once made Argentina one of the world's greatest trading nations -dropped in the last five years to one-half of their previous volume. Reason: Peron's government grabbed control of all exports and crippled farm production in an attempt to squeeze out profits to finance an ill-planned industrialization. ¶Industrialization, too, utterly failed to bring Argentina power, steel, fuel, even such essential equipment as trucks and farm machinery...
First Challenge. Lonardi's talk was plainly disquieting to Argentina labor, which now feared a drive to freeze wages and raise lagging productivity. Toward week's end, leaders of the General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), once a major bulwark for Peron and currently embroiled in a power struggle with rival labor chiefs, threatened to call a general strike. But Lonardi met the challenge head on. He suspended every union official in the country, empowered army officers to organize and run off union elections for 120 days hence. The strike threat petered...
...files, crammed into a small three-story building in Buenos Aires, revealed that the government carefully made sure that no acts opposing Peron ever took place on university campuses. In addition to the personal dossiers, there were also folders which analyzed the person...