Word: peronistas
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Formula. Politics he heard about mostly from his sons. Guillermo, 22 and just back from a year's compulsory military service, was an enthusiastic Peronista. Gerardo, 18, studying at the university to become a chartered accountant, because Pedro had determined that one of his sons should have the benefit of a good education, was anti-Perón, as most university students. The brothers squabbled endlessly over Perón's foreign projects, domestic reforms...
Some time before the election of Juan Domingo Peron to the Argentine Presidency, the U.S. State Department decided that a Peronista government was intolerable to American interests. Working from this premise, Spruille Braden issued the famous Blue Book, which catalogued the Nazi leanings of the Strong Man and the wartime sins of his militarist clique. The Blue Book failed miserably to swing Argentine opinion, while at the same time it boomeranged toward its authors the old cries of "Yanqui interference" that have plagued our dealings with Latin America for a century. The failure of the Braden experiment seems to point...