Word: ramirez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small crowd gathered in the rain last week in front of Buenos Aires Casa Rosada (Pink House), heard President Ramirez announce that Argentina had broken diplomatic relations with Germany and Japan. The last and most reluctant nation of Latin America had put a tentative foot in the United Nations camp...
...action followed weeks of pressure brought against" Argentina's militaristic, Nazi-tainted Government by the U.S. and Britain. German espionage in Argentina had been newly exposed; there was audible talk of an Anglo-American embargo (TIME, Jan. 31). Obviously, the Ramirez Government saw that the last hour had come; Argentina had to choose between the Allies and the Axis. Precisely because so many friends of the Axis were powerful in the real government behind Ramirez, the choice was not easy...
...Neighbors. Little, liberal, democratic Uruguay (pop. 2,000,000) has nervously watched the development of aggressive, Fascist-like nationalism in neighboring Argentina. The group of Army jingoes called "The Colonels," led by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron and nominally headed by President-General Pedro Ramirez, has defied the U.S., the United Nations, its Latin neighbors. Almost certainly "The Colonels" instigated the revolt of Gualberto Villarroel in Bolivia (TIME, Jan. 3., et seq.}. Probably the Argentine junta has plotted similar moves in other countries, will plot again...
Cracks in the Clique. Argentina, unlike Bolivia, is neither weak nor pathetic. But her Government is not invulnerable; it has several cracks. Its President, General Pedro Ramirez, pushed into the background by the "Colonels' Clique" headed by Colonel Juan Domingo Peron, does not enjoy obscurity. Within the Clique itself, Peron has serious rivals, who resent his growing power. Most dangerous seems to be Colonel Enrique Gonzalez, Cabinet-ranking Secretary to the Presidency...
Their instrument is the GOU (Government of Order and Unity), otherwise known as "the Colonels' Clique" which put President Ramirez in office last summer. By last week, Colonel Péron and his dominant GOU had taken on many of the aspects, used some of the tricks of German Naziism. One of the first objectives: complete control of Argentine labor. Colonel Péron had already smashed the strongest union (Confederación General de Trabajo, 250,000 members), was enticing others with promises to "get your rights without outside agitators...