Word: peronism
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...movie. The movie stops and the lights come up to the chagrin of the audience. We hear a voice over the intercom speaking in Spanish, which is soon drowned out by the monotonic English translation of the day's latest news: "To inform the people of Argentina that Eva Peron, spiritual leader of the nation, entered immortality at 20:25 hours today...
...true-life rags-to-riches story of Argentinian heroine Evita Peron is well-known. Evita traces this shooting star from the slums of Buenos Aires to the president's mansion. Evita grew up an ambitious girl in Argentinian slums, carefully manipulating her "targets," usually men, to ensure her ascent on the ladder of success. Her climb ends when she finally reaches the "top" and marries Juan Peron, the soon-to-be-dictator of Argentina...
Once when Juan Peron was returning (he was always returning), the Peronistas stopped cheering after he had passed by and commenced shooting one another, having nothing in common other than their allegiance to Peron. One suspects the Perot-nistas (the coinage is by novelist Peter Tauber) will have the same problem, though one trusts not as dramatically...
...common with the international brotherhood of workers to which he once professed allegiance. For his major opponent, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, democratic principles merely temper a style reminiscent of a Latin American caudillo, complete with ceremonial-sashed portrait displayed in all police stations and paternalistic rhetoric reminiscent of Peron or Pinochet. Yet his major internal opposition comes from an even more extreme group: the Croatian Party of Rights, which unabashedly honors the memory of the fascist, Hitler-backed state that flourished briefly during World...
Ironically enough, most of the economic reforms which Menem is now undertaking (and receiving widespread public approval for) were first proposed by Alfonsin, only to be defeated by the Peronists in Parliament. Juan Peron must be laughing in his grave...