Word: isabelita
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...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...
...civilian rule. Within a month, Perón returned to live in Argentina and was re-elected President three months later. Perón died in July 1974, leaving power in the hands of his third wife, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, a former cabaret dancer. "Isabelita," as she was known, was unable to reduce Argentina's terrorism or its hyperinflation, and the country's increasingly impatient generals overthrew her in March...
Peronism is now a splintered movement, but its various branches all endorse some blend of nationalism and populist welfarism. One faction still supports Isabelita Peron, now in her own exile in Madrid. If the party is indeed permitted to operate openly, the question is not just whether the Peronists will be able to overcome their differences and win the electoral majority they claim. It is also whether the military will accept such an outcome...
...shrewd. He is considered a potentially warm ally of the U.S., where he studied army engineering in 1960-61. Despite his credentials as a political hard-liner and staunch antiCommunist, Galtieri was not directly identified with the political oppression that engulfed the country after the over throw of Isabelita Perón in 1976, resulting in the disappearance of more than 6,000 opponents of the regime...
...Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, does not take office armed with much confidence from his fellow Argentines, who are deeply cynical about the ability of the generals to govern. Galtieri will be the third military ruler, after Jorge Rafael Videla and Viola, since the 1976 coup that overthrew the government of Isabelita Perón and resulted in a bloody campaign to rid the country of leftist terrorists. The down-to-earth Galtieri, 55, is said to be well-liked in Washington and is expected to move swiftly to restore economic order to Argentina. But his stewardship of el proceso, as skeptics...