Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WITH deep-rooted memories of Argentina under Peron (who tried to humiliate Borges--then a librarian--by making him a provincial poultry inspector) Borges has a great love for the United States. "After all," he recalls, "it came to me in the best way, through literature--Mark Twain, Hawthorne, Melville. . . . What I find very admirable is that people here have a keen sense of right and wrong...
...Pope Paul twice in the past three years. To help arrange a truce, Costa asked to meet with the church's leading bishops some time next month. He realizes all too well that it was the wrath of the Catholic Church that helped topple Argen tine Dictator Juan Peron...
Beheadings & Poetry. If Castro was the spearhead of Cuba's revolution, Che was its philosopher. Born in Argentina, he grew up battling in the streets against Dictator Juan Peron, gave up a medical career to become a full-time revolutionary, and by the early 1950s was in Mexico City plotting a Cuban revolution with Castro. Like Castro, Che had a passionate hatred of the U.S., an emotional worship of the Communist world, an obsessive determination to succeed in all things. Unlike Castro, however, he was cool and pragmatic. The same Che who could calmly order a comrade beheaded...
...future form of government will be like Peron's. The masses will be organized and have important influence, but with the understanding that the Conservatives retain the directing positions...
...present regime has restricted certain civil liberties--the autonomy of the universities, for instance--but Romero feels that the restrictions are mild when compared with those of past regimes. (Peron, for example, revived the death penalty for conspiracy against the government and refused workers the right to strike.) The restrictions placed on the University, Romero continued, are designed to keep the potentially revolutionary element of the population out of the political arena...