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However, much of this same press was full of praise and hope for the Videla regime. In the days after the Argentine coup, The New York Times published pictures of soldiers on guard in front of the government palace smiling relaxedly at women or cheerfully playing with pigeons in the park. An April 4 Times editorial implied that Videla's regime was moderate and well intentioned. True, there had been arrests in the first few days, but these were rather selectively aimed at corrupt Peronist functionaries. The contrast with Chile was evident and the efficiency and advance notice...
...April 22 (N.Y. Times, 5/8/76). Some individual cases can be recounted here: Emilio de Ippola, a Paris and Montreal educated Argentine sociologist, disappeared on April 4 along with his wife and Eduardo Molina y Vedia, a reporter from La Opinion. A prompt international campaign of telegrams to Videla inquiring about the disappearances made the junta aware that the news had somehow leaked out. The junta admitted to having detained them for interrogation and assured that they were alive and well. The prompt campaign of telegrams may well have saved their lives. Antonio Misetich, an MIT-affiliated Argentine scientist, was arrested...
...seems likely that the Argentine junta, sensitive to the international revulsion against a violent coup comparable to Chile's, decided to act in two stages. First, a moderate period with sporadic arrests and little censorship, then strict censorship and the imposition of a hard, repressive line. Videla, Agosti and Massera count on two things. This carefully orchestrated two-stage process may allow them to carry out repressive measures under less international pressure. Furthermore, the solidarity campaigns organized in the United States, Canada and Europe, which were so successful in saving many Chilean lives, have somehow become exhausted. Almost three years...
...junta's economic and social policies are essentially analogous to the Chilean ones: freezing of salaries to provide cheap labor and to promote heavy private foreign investment. In order to "restore morality and efficiency to the government, wipe out subversion and restore the economy," Videla dissolved the Congress, provincial and municipal legislatures, suspended all political parties, all trade unions, dismissed the justices of the Supreme Court and banned all political activities. A "Legislative Assessment Council" was formed (just as in Chile) which will assist the new rulers in their government. The death penalty was reinstated for attacks on members...
...course, Videla said in his speech of March 30, "sacrifices" will be needed so the new economic program can "assure private enterprise and national and foreign capital all the necessary conditions to participate, with their maximum potential and creative force, in the rational exploitation of our resources." The person put in charge of directing this "sacrifice" was urgently summoned from his hunting camp in Kenya, where he was on safari. He is the new finance minister Jose Martinez de Hoz, known as "Joe" to his friend David Rockefeller. Martinez de Hoz is the son of a wealthy traditional cattle-ranching...