Word: peronism
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...cosmetic is not enough. Juan Domingo Perón, almost 78, looks his age -and feels it. He tires easily; he has trouble concentrating. Yet he must try to marshal his failing faculties. Nearly two decades after he was run out of Argentina, a deposed, despised despot, Peron is home again, exalted again, in charge again of one of the richest countries in Latin America...
Like the country, Perón, too, is ailing. Concerned about the condition of his heart, doctors have warned him that the rebirth of his political career could hasten his death. Just as ominous, though, is the problem that Peron faces within his own political movement, which is sharply split between the right and the left. The rightists, reports TIME Buenos Aires Bureau Chief Charles Eisendrath, seem as loyal as ever, willing to follow el Líder virtually wherever he takes them. But the leftists, who include many youths barely born when Perón was ousted...
...community concern is the fragmentation of the classes. The wealthy oligarchs, the middle class and the workers are not only separated from one another but are all deeply divided within themselves. In sum, it is a situation much easier for a shrewd politician to exploit than solve, as Peron proved in his first rise to power...
...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...