Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onetime army colonel, Peron developed his political ideas after he visited Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and early 1940s. In 1943 he became Argentina's Minister of Labor and Welfare. Perón skillfully used that post to create a power base within Argentina's working class (known as los descamisados, the shirtless ones). Briefly imprisoned by his jealous military colleagues in 1945, Perón was freed when Maria Eva ("Evita") Duarte, who was soon to become his second wife, helped to organize mass demonstrations on his behalf. Elected President a few months...
Kirkpatrick, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University on Argentina during the Peron years, considers herself the Administration's premier expert on Latin America. Conservative and staunchly antiCommunist, she repaired the U.S.'s ties with Buenos Aires last year and fervently hoped to build a strategic barricade against leftist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere by forging closer links with authoritarian regimes like the military junta in Argentina. Though Haig shares Kirkpatrick's fears about Communist advances in Latin America, he is a political pragmatist who is generally more flexible on foreign policy issues. Having been Supreme...
...came not through mysticism or political revolution but through secular education, a mastery of Western intellectual traditions and the English language. His unique combination of experience and skills helped make him a distinguished novelist. In such non-fiction works as India: A Wounded Civilization and The Return of Eva Peron, he also emerged as an impressive interpreter and critic of the Third World...
...heart surgery; in New Orleans. An outspoken critic of American health habits, he co-founded the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans in 1941 and served as its director of surgery for 24 years, training heart specialists like Michael DeBakey and attending such patients as Argentina's President Juan Peron, Golfer Ben Hogan and Actor Gary Cooper...
...Argentina in 1928 to escape the pogroms, was one of Buenos Aires' most influential journalists and newspaper publishers. That placed him dangerously close to the center of events as Argentina imploded in the late '60s and early '70s, during the second coming of Juan Domingo Peron. The country's civil identity virtually disappeared, with "Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the military, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen." Ideas were replaced by the license to kill for them. Timerman was a Zionist, a social democrat, a moderate-and altogether too intimate...