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...screeching halt and with it, in the opinion of many observers, the sway of the old-line Peronists who served with el Líder in the years of glory. Taking their place are officials loyal to Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega, the shadowy confidant of Mrs. Perón. A former astrologer, López Rega is widely regarded as the country's most powerful figure. He has presided over a drastic turn toward economic austerity that has enraged millions of Argentines. As one Buenos Aires columnist put it, "Peronism...
...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...
...observed: "The extreme positions and the truculent folklore of the far left serve more to attract young people who are out to frighten their aunts than to win big popular majorities." The losers saw it differently and charged the government with vote buying. José López Rega, Mrs. Perón's private secretary and Social Welfare Minister, did visit the province shortly before the election to distribute nearly $5 million worth of housing subsidies...
...whit." Thus did Isabel Perón, 43, open her first formal Cabinet meeting in Government House last week, one week after the death of her husband and predecessor. To emphasize her plea of no change, she confirmed as her private secretary Conservative José López Rega, who had held the same position under her husband and is also Minister of Social Welfare. Moments later she reaffirmed Perón's economic policy, having earlier retained José Gelbard as Economics Minister. The next day she appeared at Buenos Aires' cathedral for a Te Deum commemorating...
Probable sources of trouble are abundant. One is the enmity between López Rega, 54, and Gelbard, 57. As Perón's closest, most influential aide, López Rega became a highly controversial political figure, distrusted by moderate and leftist Peronistas both in and out of the government. When he went to Libya last March to negotiate an oil deal, later criticized as too costly, he complained that he had been hindered because Argentina had too many Jews on its economic team. Gelbard is a Jew. This conflict is expected to get worse as it becomes...