Word: strongmen
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Fallen Dictator Juan Perón, taking the beaten track of most toppled Latin American strongmen, had asked the Buenos Aires embassy of neighboring Paraguay for asylum. Ambassador Juan Chaves escorted him to the 636-ton river gunboat Paraguay, and in that cramped refuge Juan Peron waited, his power to make Argentine history broken and dissolved...
Solidarity among strongmen seemed to be the meeting's theme, but it was tinged with subtle rivalry. The gift that Pérez Jiménez brought was a replica of Simón Bolivar's sword, studded with 860 sapphires-a lavish memento, but also a neat reminder that Peru historically owes its independence to Venezuela's Bolivar. And in any economic comparison, oil-rich Venezuela could lay claim to the more spectacular boom (TIME, Feb. 28). But Peru could also make an impressive boast...
...casual contrast to the bejeweled pomp of the strongmen's council in Peru (see above), Arias and Figueres, with their Foreign Ministers, sat down at a table placed astride the international boundary line. With banana pickers, cops and Cabinet Ministers wandering freely around, the ceremonies were simple and unsecretive. Costa Rica offered Panama a written invitation, under informal discussion for the past few months, to join the Organization of Central American States, which already includes all the other isthmian countries between Mexico and South America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica...
...Sabre jet fighters to the Dominican Republic and 22 more to Venezuela. Other Latin American countries, shopping for similar planes, have always gulped at the cost and backed away. But Washington thought that the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, both prospering under well-heeled strongmen, would be willing to pay the price. $9,000,000 and $8,000,000 respectively...
...much as he wanted electoral endorsement, Batista also wanted to stay in power. And while Cubans doubtless remember the treasury looting that went on under Grau, they may also remember that they were freer and more prosperous in those days; moreover, they have a cranky habit of turning against strongmen-even good ones. Last week, as a possible precaution against such nostalgic ingratitude, the Batista-controlled supreme electoral court forbade newspapers and radio stations to use election results from any source but the court's own official bulletins. That might guard against phony or inaccurate reports, but it also...