Word: peronismo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Pedro Aramburu, who took over as President of Argentina a fortnight ago on a platform of tougher crackdown on Peronismo than his go-slow predecessor, last week cracked down in measures both symbolic and practical...
...major support of the regime, was grumbling. Perón's next shock came a day later when Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina entered a cabinet meeting arm in arm with Eduardo Vuletich, boss of Argentine labor. By this gesture, labor, the other support of Peronismo, served notice that it shared the army's discontent. Taking the floor, Vuletich attacked allegedly corrupt officials, notably the President's private secretary, Juan Duarte, brother of the late Eva Perón. When a Perón sycophant tried to change the subject, General Sosa Molina glared...
Juan Perón is fond of saying that Plato's ideal of the benevolent philosopher-ruler has at last been achieved in Argentina. Doctor (honoris causa) of the University of Buenos Aires and author of the "20 truths" of Peronismo (social justice, old-age pensions, etc.), Perón sees himself as a sage as well as a strong man. Last week some of Perón's lectures at the Peronista Normal School for party leaders were published in book form in Buenos Aires; they glittered with inside dope on how to grab and hold political...
...Notwithstanding Peronismo's proclaimed Truth No. 1 that "true democracy is the one that does what the people want," the leader's real job is to decide what the people should want. "The masses are like the muscles directed by the brain . . . One must permit the people to have the 50% that they want-but be sure that one's own 50% is the half that matters...
Last week Perón told a group of party high-ups: "When Christ saw Golgotha looming ahead, He no longer insisted on personal leadership but sent His disciples out to broadcast His work . . . Our movement was at the outset a personal movement, but as the builder of Peronismo, I know that I, too, am nearing Golgotha. I want to follow Christ's example and leave not twelve but millions of disciples to spread my doctrine...