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Word: peronism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...businessman puts it another way. "This place is in no sense the old-style jack-booted dictatorship. I've worked in Venezuela during the time of Perez Jimenez, in the Dominican Republic under Trujillo, in Argentina under Peron. There is no atmosphere of tension and fear. The idea is order, to build something." That is how Stroessner sees himself-as Paraguay's builder. His term expires in 1968, and constitutionally he is barred from running again. But in Stroessner's Paraguay, the builder can always reconstruct a constitution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paraguay: We Will Show Them | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...certain sense, of course, Mann is right. As the futile ten-year struggle to oust Peron demonstrated, American attempts to unseat Latin American dictators have been largely ineffective. The danger of a policy of supporting dictatorships, however, is that they eventually fall. At that time, those who supported them become targets for legitimate resentments aroused by the dictators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mr. Mann | 3/21/1964 | See Source »

...surprised everybody when Argentina filed for his extradition on technical charges of "rape or ravishment" for seducing a minor under 16. The girl in question is one he left behind: Nelly Rivas, now 24, married and the mother of two. The case has been kicking around since Peron was deposed in 1955, but now a zealous Buenos Aires judge has suddenly pushed it through. Perón seemed undisturbed. "Such stupidities," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 20, 1963 | 12/20/1963 | See Source »

...years ago, Latin America had only 13 Catholic universities, with some 10,000 students. Today there are 31, and their total enrollment is close to 50,000. Brazil counts ten (v. four ten years ago); Argentina has six, all founded since the fall of Dictator Juan Peron in 1955; Mexico has four; Chile has two. Córdoba's Catholic University itself was founded in 1958, yet its library has already grown to 55,000 volumes, its enrollment to 1,200 and its faculty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: A Place to Learn | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...four years the brothers plied their trade. In 1952 Eva Peron gave Juan Cardoso a gold cup as "best detective of the year." Then when Peron was finally ousted in 1955, the boys hopped on a motorcycle, raced to the Paraguayan embassy and requested political asylum. The new Argentine government angrily demanded their return as common criminals. But the Paraguayans insisted that the Cardosos were political refugees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Argentina: Men Who Came to Dinner | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

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