Word: isabelita
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...have men tioned that between Lanusse and Videla was another leader of some notoriety. His name was Juan Perdn, and his two reigns covered some ten years (1946-55, 1973-74). His second coming lasted just one year. Then he died, leaving the country to his wife Isabelita, and to chaos. During the last Peronista years, terror spread by the guerrilla left was a similar but bloodier version of that practiced by the Screwery. It paralyzed the country with out materially advancing the revolution aries' aims - and brought on the current repression. There have been some signs that...
...Montoneros. Once a neo-Peronist youth group-the name means bushfighters-the Marxist Montoneros of Argentina were responsible for many of the random murders and kidnapings during the regime of Isabelita Perón. The military junta has mounted a countrywide war against these archetypal Latin American guerrillas, whose goal is to take over the government. At least 9,000 Montoneros have been killed or detained by police. But an estimated 12,000 remain at large, and their leaders-Mario Firmenich, Fernando Vaca Narvaja, Horacio Mendizabál-have close contacts with the Palestinians. The Montonero slogan: FATHERLAND OR DEATH...
Cult of Perón. No one expects the junta to step down soon. Eleven years of Perón's rule plus another two decades of his baleful influence shattered and paralyzed moderate political forces. Even as Isabelita awaits trial for misuse of public funds, el Lider's cult retains its mystique. "People have no confidence in parties," concedes one anti-Peronist politician. "We are not ready for elections until Peronism is dismantled and forgotten...
Nonetheless, inflation courses on at 8% to 10% a month-lower than under Isabelita, but still corrosive. Accustomed to lavish salaries and the best and cheapest food in South America, Argentines are eating less steak and moonlighting to stay solvent. Real wages have plummeted by 50% to 60% in a year. But unemployment in Buenos Aires is only 4% to 5%-testimony to the muscle of Peronist unions, whose members provided el Lider's political infantry...
...long as his (or Isabel's) regime would give the generals a free hand to attack the guerrilla and other left-wing movements. During the last few months of Mrs. Peron's regime, the military and right-wing paramilitary forces were waging an open war against the leftists while "Isabelita" was taking all the blame for economic paralysis and political chaos. This was a very convenient situation for the armed forces which thus appeared not responsible for the collapse of the country and also watched the Peronists, their long-standing enemies, disintegrate amid total corruption and inefficiency...