Word: peronist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government palace smiling relaxedly at women or cheerfully playing with pigeons in the park. An April 4 Times editorial implied that Videla's regime was moderate and well intentioned. True, there had been arrests in the first few days, but these were rather selectively aimed at corrupt Peronist functionaries. The contrast with Chile was evident and the efficiency and advance notice of the coup were even treated with touches of good humor...
...story since the takeover has been quite different. News coming out of Argentina indicates that a widespread campaign of repression and arrests has finally started and that the arrests are no longer confined to former Peronist bureaucrats but form part of a general crackdown on leftist intellectuals, university professors, students, writers, psychoanalysts, journalists, scientists, and political and union activists. In addition, there is a widespread campaign against leftist political exiles from Chile and other South American countries. Conspicuously little treatment of these roundups has appeared in the U.S. press in the last few weeks...
...that year she agreed to run for the vice presidency when he urged her to join him in his successful bid for the presidency. Although she was a strong campaigner among the descamisados (shirtless ones), the urban poor who have been the core of the Peronist movement, she was woefully unprepared to lead her nation of 25 million when Juan died of a heart attack in July...
...prices rose almost daily. Dissatisfied workers paralyzed industry with strikes, and terrorist killings and kidnapings mounted. Isabel's reflex response to each crisis was a Cabinet shuffle. In 20 months, she had six Economy Ministers, six Interior Ministers and four Foreign Ministers. Because she could not lead the Peronist movement she inherited, left and far-right factions fell into open warfare...
...someone must move fairly soon into the vacuum at the top of Argentina's political life. Isabel Perón has set a new presidential election for next October (somewhat self-servingly, on Peronist Loyalty Day). Whether the country can stand that long a wait is arguable. Inflation is now running at a rate of about 300% a year, and even the affluent middle class is living from day to day on rapidly dwindling buying power. Terrorism from both the right and left has claimed more than 1,500 lives since Juan Perón's death...