Word: peronism
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Argentina sported the trappings of democracy. But if Juan Domingo Peron's first six weeks as President were any indication, they were only trappings: life was not getting less totalitarian along the Rio de la Plata...
While the Americans meddled with the political dynamite that blew up in their faces, Peron has proceeded to consolidate his political support and, what is more dangerous, to use Argentine food as a means of intimidating its neighbors. Taking a leaf out of the Nazi textbook, the dictator has brought labor into line with promises that might be taken word-for-word from the Nuremberg harangues of 1932-33. With the centralization of the National Bank, the government now has a percentage of the credits it needs to carry on the military and naval expansion that will divert the Argentines...
...same weeks the spectre of wheat and meat shipments has forced important oil and rubber concessions out of Peru, a customs union out of Bolivia, and has brought the Peron-sponsored candidates into a favored position in the coming Uruguayan elections. The U.S. may propose hemisphere military cooperation, but unless it supplements surface collaboration with effective economic opposition to Peron, the vital Spanish-speaking belt will be lost to American leadership as it is forced into the orbit of the power state below the Mar Del Plata. The past conduct of the Argentine government during the war is ample illustration...
...turned down, the meat imports curtailed beyond the present quota. Neither Kansas farmers nor Polish peasants (who will never get Argentine beef, spoiling while the Strong Man haggles over price) will object to these measures. To give these measures scope, the food concessions offered Argentina's satellite countries by Peron must be matched with make-do grants of consumers' goods until we can manage to fill all of our food commitments...
...State Department, an old hand at economic warfare, chased the Nazi investments out of South America. The same methods can be used to spell doom to the next six years of Juan Peron's experiment in South American fascism...