Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Argentina, much the same situation seems to prevail. Peron is actually moving to the right, relying on his conservative advisers and jettisoning the left-wing support that played such an important role in bringing him back to power...
Argentina. After 18 years in the wilderness, Juan Peron is back, bringing with him his distinctive brand of liberal fascism. But Peron's support extends curiously leftward, and his assumption to power may start to break up Argentinian politics, frozen by a decade of military dictatorship...
Lanusse immediately declared a state of emergency and imposed martial law on Buenos Aires and Argentina's five most populous provinces. He also insisted that Campora, who had been conferring with Juan Peron in Madrid about the new government that is to take office May 25, return home to deal with "the new crimes." Campora, who hitherto had studiously ignored the military's recommendations and instructions, could not refuse this time. "I shall return on the first plane," he cabled Lanusse...
...kidnapers are little better than bandits, but many of them claim to be acting either for socialism or for Peronism. President-elect Hector Campora, who was voted into power last month as the representative of the exiled Juan Peron, has asked the guerrillas to "grant us a truce" until after his government is installed May 25. There is little sign of that happening...
...situation, however, worries all other political parties; they fear a repetition of the last presidential election in 1963. At that time, Peron's supporters, threatened with annulment of their ballots, voted blanks, thereby allowing Arturo Illia to win the presidency with 27% of the vote. The bickering that followed led to the takeover by the military, which has ruled ever since...