Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With last week's death of Peron, the fragile equilibrium in Argentina will very probably explode and the violence escalate. The Traitors helps us understand...
...Argentine worker, whom the makers of The Traitors are addressing, Barrera's story is sufficient in itself to make him recognize how miserably workers can be exploited by his supposed leaders. It is a common knowledge in Argentina that, beginning with the rule of Gen. Juan D. Peron in 1945, when workers received a wide array of economic and social benefits, trade unions became increasingly conservative until they were virtually at the beck and call of the government. Throughout the spectacularly popular decade of Peron's regime, and throughout the military rule that followed, Argentine workers lost their autonomous leaders...
...shade of fiery Eva Peron must have winced. Touring Europe on behalf of her ailing husband, Argentina's President Juan Peron, 78, Isabelita, 44, made it clear that she was not trying to usurp his role. In Rome, Eva's successor gave a 55-minute speech defining the feminine ideal with a kicker worthy of Gertrude Stein: "Women have to be and feel no more than what they are and no less than what they must...
That was a notable diplomatic victory for the Peron government. For months Argentina has been pressuring Washington to waive its economic blockade of Cuba and allow some 42,000 vehicles, made in Argentina by American subsidiaries, to be shipped to the Castro government. At issue for the Argentines was not only the commercial value of the exports but also the question of sovereignty: the Buenos Aires government understandably did not like to have the U.S. controlling any aspect of its foreign-trade policy. The Peron government even threatened to expropriate the companies if the export license was not granted. Fearful...
...attack finally stirred Peron to act against Argentina's increasingly audacious terrorists, who in the past year have been responsible for many of a score of political murders and 200 kidnapings. Donning his general's uniform, a stern-faced el Lider appeared on nationwide television last week, vowing a readiness to take "all pertinent measures" to crush terrorist groups. He warned that "if we don't have the law [to combat terrorists], we'll do it outside the law and we'll do it violently, because you can't oppose violence with anything...