Abstract

Storm over Argentina

Summer has come to an end in Argentina and the season for political turmoil has returned with a vengeance. To the many "trouble spots" preying on the American conscience must now be added, once again, that far-off part of the political forest nominally guided by President Arturo Frondizi. No sooner had the name Frondizi become fixed in Latin American politics, than the bad memory of President Juan Domingo Peron and the nationalist movement he led returned to haunt the course of Empire-building. The first fact to be noted in the extraordinarily crushing defeat sustained by Frondizi at the hands of the Peronists in this month's Congressional elections is its inevitability in the light of social and economic developments in Argentina since the end of direct military rule in 1958.