At a routine press conference last week Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada.
The Buenos Aires Municipal Council has had some ugly scandals recently, but has turned its racketeering members over to the courts. Nevertheless, Señor Castillo used this graft as grounds for firing the whole Council.
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for...
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