Word: puppeteer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Argentina, a land of spreading pampas, beef and grain, whose 20 million people are more than 90% European-descended, has been ruled by a puppet President and a military dictatorship for 3½ months. The treasury is about bankrupt, the peso has fallen from 83 to a dollar to as low as 137, the cost of living has risen 42.7% since April, and one of the most powerful of the Peronista unions last week threatened to take over the factories themselves unless they were paid long-overdue wages. Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray is flying...
...Juan is no princely puppet. In Estoril, he works hard each morning at his rambling Villa Giralda. digesting reports on developments in Spain, receiving visitors, answering mail, plowing through the newspapers flown in from London...
From the desk of Puppet President José María Guido came a pair of presidential decrees dissolving all political parties and formally recessing Congress for a year...
...struck for a $1.50 wage boost, to bring their pay to $2.50 a day. Though strikes are illegal, the miners stubbornly stuck to their walkout; they had no strike funds, no organization, ran the risk of losing all their social security and pension benefits from the government's puppet labor union. But their tenacity won them sympathizers; from the northern industrial provinces, the walkout fanned out into mines, factories and shipyards all over Spain until 100,000 workers were...
...only the flimsiest façade of democracy. Arturo Frondizi, the deposed constitutional President who gave Peron's still-faithful descamisados (shirtless ones) a place on the ballot, still waits on his prison island in the Rio de la Plata. In the Buenos Aires Presidential Palace sits a puppet President, José Maria Guido, a minor politician who must wait, too-wait for the military men, who fear Peron, to decide what to do. Last week the generals made up their minds, and the result was a further flight of democracy from Argentina...