Word: rodr
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Interior Minister Luis Orlando Rodríguez: "You embarrass...
Will Perón also try to put over his old plan for uniting Argentina and Chile in a customs union? Chilean Publisher Luis Rodríguez, returning last week from Buenos Aires, said Peron told him: "I believe it is time for Argentina and Chile to form a political and economic federation." When Rodriguez gingerly mentioned that many Chileans fear that the Argentines would try to dominate such a partnership, Perón guffawed: "In order that this ideal should become reality, I would be willing to let Chile annex Argentina...
...time. In this imperfect world not all individuals and not all peoples, however long they live, achieve it . . . Go into some Latin American countries where free speech is allowed, and, if an election campaign is in progress, note the campaign language painted on the walls of the town: Viva Rodríguez! Que muera González! (Long Live Rodríguez! Death to González!). The Gonzalistas, in turn, announce that when they get into power they will hang the Rodriguistas. Imagine an election campaign conducted in the U.S. or England in such terms! Imagine placards crying...