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...introduced military dictatorship in Argentina for the sixth time in 43 years. After the death of charismatic President Perón two years before, the constitutional government had been walking on eggshells; despite not being president, the anti-communist extremist Jose López Rega controlled the administration. In city streets, he led a dirty war with socialist organizations. While his factions killed one person every 19 hours in 1975, cadres from the opposing side resorted to bombs and kidnappings. Society and foreign embassies knew the coup was coming, and they welcomed it. Military officers explicitly declared that they were...
...brittle, fragile woman, she isolated herself, governing through a small clique of inept and often corrupt advisers. Among them was Astrologer-Mystic José López Rega, a kind of Pampas Rasputin whose power antagonized the military and whose conservative economic ideas upset labor. After popular demonstrations forced López Rega to quit last July, Isabel became a near recluse. At her infrequent public appearances, she was visibly nervous, often tearful and sometimes nearly hysterical. Last fall, claiming failing health, she took a leave to retreat to the hills of Córdoba to regain her strength. Many...
...obscure Buenos Aires weekly called Lea. In the same issue, the only one ever published, were editorial attacks against several Argentines who had recently incurred the displeasure of either President Isabel Perón or her hated adviser, former Social Welfare Minister José López Rega. A check of the address given on Lea's title page revealed no building; near by, however, was a publishing house operated by the Argentine Ministry of Social Welfare...
...past, responsibility for burnt, bullet-ridden corpses like those found near Buenos Aires has been claimed by the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, a right-wing terrorist group publicly linked to José López Rega. A working relationship would well serve the mutual interests of DINA and the A. A. A. DINA has a long list of names for which it needs bodies and the A.A.A. has bodies for which it needs names. DINA, it is thought, was particularly interested in whittling down its long list of missing persons before the arrival of a delegation from the U.N. Human...
Following López Rega into retirement last week were two other members of her Cabinet, Economy Minister Celestino Rodrigo and newly installed Social Welfare Minister Carlos Villone. In addition, López Rega's son-in-law, Raul Lastiri, resigned as president of the Chamber of Deputies...