Word: isabelita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have inaugurated a new political style in the country," Argentine President Raul Alfonsin declared as he signed a 15-point agreement with former President María Estela (Isabelita) Martínez de PerÓn and the leaders of 14 other parties last week. The pact was another step in Alfonsín's drive to maintain national unity at a time when the country is facing an annual inflation rate of 568% and growing labor unrest. Some 400,000 miners, bus drivers, waterworks employees and metal-and grain-workers are currently demanding wage increases...
...colleagues won instant fame by kidnaping and murdering a former Argentine provisional President, Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. The justification: "anti-imperialism." Eventually, Firmenich declared an underground guerrilla war against the incompetent regime of then President María Estela Martinez de Perón, better known as "Isabelita...
...economic quagmire. On the eve of the inauguration, after 2½ years of self-imposed exile in Spain, where she had fled following a ruinous term as President, Juan Perón's widow Isabel flew into Buenos Aires as Alfonsin's guest at the ceremony. Whether Isabelita plans to lead a regrouping of the ragged Peronist ranks is unclear, but if she assumes a major role in the party, it could spark bitter feuding between her supporters and foes...
...mystical sway over a vast poor and working-class constituency. Today, however, the Peronists are torn by factional feuding, an affliction that many members believe could be cured if only Isabel (born Maria Estela) Martínez de Perón, the dictator's widow, would assert herself. Isabelita, as she is widely called, was ousted by the military in 1976 and banned from politics after a disastrous 21-month reign as Argentine President. She fled to self-exile in Spain, but last week the government restored her political rights, and many Peronists expect her to return...
...hotly contested presidential race signals a welcome return to democracy. Since overthrowing Isabelita, Argentina's military rulers have run into nothing but trouble. The economy is a shambles, with inflation running at an annual rate of about 400%, reportedly the world's highest. Argentines were sickened by the regime's crackdown on leftist guerrillas in the late '70s, the so-called dirty war, in which at least 6,000 people disappeared. The final blunder, however, was Argentina's ill-fated 1982 seizure and subsequent loss of the British-held Falkland Islands. In February the military...