Word: strongmanism
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Public Works. Prosperity is a key weapon in President Fulgencio Batista's struggle to remain in office. When the strongman moved into the presidential palace in 1952, he inherited an economy weakened by a huge sugar surplus that was depressing world prices. Batista slapped on acreage quotas, gradually unloaded the excess, even shipping sugar to the U.S.S.R. Prices started a gradual climb, now stand 30% higher than in 1953. He imposed greater discipline on the country's labor unions, granted wide tax and tariff concessions to new industry. In a calculated gamble, he began spending part...
After so restrained a performance, the Egyptian crowds expected that the strongman's public speech in Alexandria four days later would be sensational. But though it had more fury, it was not wild. Once again Nasser went back over the past, going to great lengths to explain away last fall's sordid military defeat as a "glorious withdrawal." For the first time he managed to acknowledge: "We cannot deny America's attitude during the aggression and its condemnation of such aggression, as well as its attitude...
...Flop. In only one business venture-the tourist trade-has the dictator proved a flop. He spent $25 million erecting a gigantic "International Fair for Peace and Progress," opened the doors for business only three months before the Galindez kidnaping. The strongman was splashed with a storm of bad notices unequaled since he ordered the massacre of 15,000 Haitian migrant farm workers in 1937. As he steadily blocked FBI investigation of the double crime, magazines, newspapers, radio networks and U.S. Congressmen denounced him. The tourist traffic jerked to a halt...
Trujillo obviously hopes to ride out the storm, and to help him he has marshaled one of the most potent corps of propaganda agents that any foreign nation maintains in the U.S. But even if Galindez and Murphy are forgotten, the strongman's state has little chance of rivaling traditional Caribbean vacation lands. The few tourists who do visit it return to report a polite but lifeless people, depressingly adept at following the rules of appeasing egomania, but no fit company for a fling...
...fall of dictatorships all over South America has left Venezuela's General Marcos Perez Jiménez a lonely military strongman. Gone are Peru's General Manuel Odría, Argentina's General Juan Perón, Colombia's General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. For a bird-of-a-feather to help him celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day, President Pérez Jiménez could find only President Alfredo Stroessner of tiny, backward Paraguay. Flags of the two countries flew side by side all over Caracas last week as General Stroessner and a party...