Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elected with the votes of ex-Dictator Juan Peron's diehard followers, Frondizi nevertheless received his sash of office from the military men who had booted Peron, and he is still torn between these two suspicious, irreconcilable forces. Early this month the Peronista "tactical command," already rewarded by a 20% blanket wage increase and a political-amnesty bill, met behind guarded doors in Buenos Aires and twisted the screws tighter. Frondizi got word to drop all court cases against Peronistas, return all Peronista property, and fire the federal judges appointed by the military regime...
Judges Fired. On the last point, Frondizi seemed ready to give in. He handed the Senate his list of nominations for permanent judgeships, and his intentions were plain. Of 145 judges, 35 anti-Peronistas lost their jobs. Every judge sitting on a case against Peron, e.g., graft treason, his love affair with 14-year-old Nelly Rivas was either dropped Or promoted to a higher but less sensitive job. The nominations sent anti-Peronistas riot through the Palace of Justice. They rained jeers and firecrackers down from the galleries, exploded a bomb in an upper-story closet, shattering the walls...
...many noisy attacks on the U.S. are simply irrational. Nationalists denounce U.S. firms for "exploiting" the countries with investments, then charge that the U.S. hinders industrialization when its investors hold back. The U.S. was roundly condemned 13 years ago for intervening in Argentina when its ambassador criticized Dictator Juan Peron, is today condemned for not having intervened against Venezuelan Dictator Marcos Perez Jimenez...
Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, a racing bug and sponsor of Driver Fangio, got so enthusiastic about Maserati racers in 1954 that he handed Adolfo Orsi a $3,000,000 machine-tool order to help speed Argentine industrialization. In turn, Adolfo enthusiastically allowed Peron three years to pay. A year later, when Peron was ousted, Argentina had paid only a fraction of its bill, all in wheat to the Italian government, which has yet to convert it into cash for Maserati. To top it off, Adolfo took on another $437,500 machine-tool order from the Spanish government-which has also...
...Voters. Most of all. Frondizi did not refer to his record as a Perón fighter, promised to bring Peronistas back into Argentina's political life. That may have cleared the way for his endorsement by Peron. Balbin, tagged as the traditionally suspected "official" candidate, and running on the ticket of a Radical splinter party, could not match the competition...