Word: regas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect...
...Rega had just been forced to resign as Minister of Social Welfare and personal secretary to President Isabel Perón-the positions that had made him the most powerful man in Argentina. Mrs. Perón, who has erratically governed the country since the death of her husband a year ago, was clearly in poor physical and emotional health. Argentina seemed to be teetering ever closer to economic collapse...
...order to speed up recovery from a bout of the flu. Some Argentines suspected, however, that the President's medical problems were more serious than her doctors would admit. Speaking to a crowd of 3,500 Perónist women on the day of López Rega's departure, she gripped the microphones until her knuckles whitened and ominously declared: "Do not forget General Perón, who gave his life in pursuit of national unity even as I am doing at this very moment." Even to television viewers, the President looked overwrought and almost skeletal. Last...
...signaled two weeks ago by the departure of Economy Minister Alfredo Gómez Morales, who alienated workers by refusing to go along with union demands for wage increases, amounting in some cases to 150%. Seeing an opportunity to gain influence in another key ministry, López Rega apparently prevailed upon Mrs. Perón to accept Gómez Morales' resignation. His replacement was a little-known industrial engineer, Celestino Rodrigo, 60, who had previously served as Secretary in López Rega's Social Welfare Ministry...
Meanwhile, the government was giving every indication that it was not even prepared to exercise firm control. Most unsettling was the disappearance of Strongman López Rega early in the week. Just as the crisis was mounting, he announced that he had not been feeling too well lately and was going on a brief holiday. Since then, various rumors have put him in Spain, Italy, Brazil and the U.S.; he has also been reported to be still in Buenos Aires or on an air force base near the city. Wherever he was, there was a growing suspicion among Argentines...