ARGENTINA: PRESDIENT PERON'S POSITION CONTINUES TO DETEORIATE, DESPITE HER GOVERNMENT'S SIGNIFICANT ANTI-GUERRILLA VICTORY[SANITIZED] - 1975/12/29

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 02929717
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 24
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 29, 1975

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2. //ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT PERON'S POSITION CONTINUES TO
DETERIORATE, DESPITE HER GOVERNMENT'S SIGNIFICANT ANTI-GUERRILLA
VICTORY.//
//PRESSURE ON THE ARMED FORCES TO INTERVENE IS GROWING,
NOTWITHSTANDING THE CONVICTION OF TOP MILITARY LEADERS THAT
THE TIME IS NOT YET RIPE. THE ARMY COMMANDER, GENERAL JORGE
VIDELA, AND HIS COLLEAGUES HAVE NO CLEAR SOLUTION TO ARGENTINA'S
PROBLEMS, AND THEY APPARENTLY FEAR THAT A NEW ERA OF MILITARY
RULE COULD BE AS UNSUCCESSFUL AS EARLIER EXPERIMENTS. NEVERTHELESS,
HARDLINERS WITHIN THE MILITARY WHO SEE A DIRECT TAKE-OVER AS THE
ONLY WAY TO AVOID CONTINUING ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHAOS ARE
BOUND TO BE ENCOURAGED BY THE EROSION OF POPULAR SUPPORT FOR
THE PERONISTS AND THE APPARENT LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE ABILITY
OF CIVILIAN POLITICIANS TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY'S
PROBLEMS.//
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//VIDELA REFLECTED ARMED FORCES DISSATISFACTION WITH
THE PRESIDENT IN A CHRISTMAS EVE SPEECH IN WHICH HE ISSUED A
SHARP WARNING TO HER GOVERNMENT. HE SAID THAT ANGER WITHIN THE
SERVICES COULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO MISGOVERNMENT, 'CORRUPTION, AND
A LACK OF NATIONAL LEADERSHIP. THE ARMY CHIEF TOOK ANOTHER
SWIPE AT PERON BY SENDING A TELEGRAM TO ONE OF HER BITTER
ENEMIES�THE PERONIST GOVERNOR OF BUENOS AIRES PROVINCE�
CONGRATULATING HIM FOR HELPING TO CRUSH TUESDAY NIGHT'S GUERRILLA
ATTACKS. THE GOVERNOR, WHO HAS BEEN MENTIONED AS A POSSIBLE
SUCCESSOR TO PERON, WAS RECENTLY OUSTED FROM THE PERONIST PARTY
FOR ADVOCATING HER REMOVAL.II//
//CONGRESSIONAL DEMANDS FOR A CHANGE IN THE EXECUTIVE BY
CONSTITUTIONAL MEANS AF,E CERTAIN TO BE STEPPED UP IN THE WEEKS
AHEAD. LEGISLATORS INTRODUCED A MOTION YESTERDAY CALLING FOR
PERON'S IMPEACHMENT. THE LIKELIHOOD FO A CIVILIAN POLITICAL
SOLUTION IS DWINDLING, HOWEVER. UNLESS THE POLITICIANS ACT
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