Abstract

Ten Years of Peron: Death of a "Revolution"

Ten years of one of the most arbitrary and personal political regimes in Latin America have converted Argentinean General Juan Domingo Peron into a tired, skeptical man whose chief amusement seems to be watching the internecine struggle of his own henchmen over the question of his successor. The government itself no longer interests him, he works very little, spending the greater part of the day with the students and sportsmen who surround him in his residence, Olivos, fifteen miles from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Of ten audiences which he grants, six are likely to be to drivers of racing cars, boxers, and movie stars. He still appears at political and workers' demonstrations organized by his propaganda apparatus, which are each time smaller and less spontaneous.