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Argentina last week still awaited the comeback attempt of ailing President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, while Acting President Ramon S. Castillo moved to make his temporary Government permanent. Of all South American countries Argentina is the most independent-minded (vis-a-vis the U. S.), and at the same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino...
...week's end, Acting President Castillo offered to put discussion of the frauds on the Congressional agenda, a step which would produce nothing but more wind. From his sickbed half-blind President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz advised the Radicals to collaborate with the Government and a Radical Deputy resigned his seat in protest. As the Ship of State veered sharply toward the shallows Juan Pueblo thought he saw on the tiller the crafty hand of onetime President General Agustín P. Justo, the only other man in Argentina with a plan...
...intrigue and maneuvering which swirled through the Mansión Presidential accomplished little. Ailing President Roberto Morcelino Ortiz, one eye blinded with the diabetes which forced him out of office on sick leave, blinked and did nothing. Tough, leathery old Vice President Ramon S. Castillo was running the Government to suit himself, yet no one knew for how long. Argentina was still a country without a leader...
Enigma in the Pink House. Roberto Ortiz, who may be the caudillo of his country if his health lets him, was on the point of accomplishing a revolutionary ambition when illness struck him down...
...President's permanent retirement, control will pass to the man who stepped in as Acting President, a shrewd, hardbitten, 67-year-old Conservative politico whose nickname, El Zorro, means "The Fox." Ramón Castillo (pronounced castíjo) became Vice President as a compromise candidate on Roberto Ortiz' ticket. When the President broke with the Conservatives and became the rallying point of Radical strength, Conservative strength gathered around Castillo and ex-President Justo. The Acting Presidency has given El Zorro a further chance to consolidate that strength and he has not muffed...