Word: peronism
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...shrug off Latin affairs and foreign relations as a minor, relatively obscure section of world politics. It is this very attitude which helps to increase the sluggish, lackadaisical concern with the area. Of Course there are world sections undergoing much more crucial developments. Nonetheless, the anti-Yankee campaigns of Peron, the nationalization of many industries, notably in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the infiltration of Communism are not developments to be treated lightly. And although Latin America is not generally considered a dangerous section, the Far East was in the same category but a few short years...
...summer night in 1945, a group of Argentine theater and radio people sat talking politics around a table at Buenos Aires' Radio Belgrano. A plump, blonde actress named Eva Duarte, then occupying the apartment next to that of Labor Minister Juan Peron, got into a hot argument with creamy-skinned Libertad Lamarque, then the country's top screen and radio actress. Libertad imperiously leaned across the table, gave Eva the last slap she was ever to receive in public, and stalked off with her own admirers. A moment later, according to the story, Tango Singer Hugo del Carril...
Bucking the Trust. The 20 centavos that Hugo paid for Eva's coffee was the best investment he ever made. A street singer as a child, he had already risen to popularity as a crooning film star. But it was his good standing with Evita Peron that raised him to political power in film and radio circles as head of the actors' union, and enabled him to become the only independent film producer in Argen tina. With Evita's support, he was able to buck the powerful Argentine Film Producers' Association, even though...
...magazine, TIME Inc. teletypesetters were sent to school to learn Spanish.; Part of the bilingual staff is made up of writers and journalists from Latin American countries, including Alberto Cellario and Leonor Villanueva, ex-editors on the staff of La Prensa, the once great Argentine daily taken over by Peron. Other Latin American staffers: Walter Montenegro, one of Bolivia's leading newspaper columnists: Roberto Esquenazi-Mayo, winner of Cuba's 1951 National Literary Prize; Maruxa Nunez de Villa-vicencio, former fashion editor of Havana's daily. El Mundo; Ramon Frausto, who wrote a column syndicated in more...
...active foreign intervention in Argentine affairs. But I claim that it cannot give much encouragement to the Argentine Democratic masses who are struggling for their liberation to see the incredible weakness of the Democratic nations which have not only tried for a long time to appease and to please Peron, but have gone so far as to tolerate patiently all the insults and the hysterical attacks directed against them by the Dictator. Walter M. Beveraggi-Allende