ARGENTINA: Shifting Winds

Is Juan Perón in trouble?

Last week his opponent in the presidential election (just seven weeks off) shouted to 50,000 people on a Buenos Aires street corner: "The Argentine man is no longer intimidated. Perón is no longer dictator." A few weeks ago an Argentine would have been arrested for saying that kind of thing in public. In fact, Ricardo Balbin, the man who said it last week, already faced arrest on 19 different charges of disrespect for the President.

But the political winds that blow across the Argentine pampas have veered somewhat. Balbin's audience last week was the best Radical turnout...

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