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Frondizi

[ fron-dee-zee; Spanish frawn-dee-see ]

noun

  1. Ar·tu·ro [ahr-, toor, -oh, ah, r, -, too, -, r, aw], 1908–1995, Argentine lawyer and political leader; president of Argentina 1958–62.


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But the powerful 234,000-man railroad unions struck for 42 days until Frondizi called off his reforms and granted 30% raises all around.

The only man who dared to flag down the railroads was ousted President Arturo Frondizi, who fired 40,000 useless workers in 1961.

At the center of the struggle was Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray, who once labored for Frondizi.

The chaos that has been Argentina's lot ever since the ouster of President Arturo Frondizi six months ago was compounded last week by an ugly civil war among the country's ruling military brass.

But the political risk involved seemed to be too much for the military men who have ruled the country since their coup against Arturo Frondizi last March.

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