STAFF NOTES: LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS JULY 16, 1975[SANITIZED] - 1975/07/16

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Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 EO 12958 3.5(c) Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 seerat' nayy KFEC Latin American Trends Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 3.5(c) et 132 July 16, 1975 No. 0518/75 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 3.5(c) Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 LATIN AMERICAN TRENDS This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington com- munity by the Western Hemisphere Division, Office of Current Intelligence, with occasional contributions from other offices within the Directorate of Intelligence. Comments and queries are welcome. They should be directed to the authors of the individual articles. CON TENTS July 16, 1975 Argentina: The Senate Takes A Stand 8 �i� Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Argentina: The Senate Takes A Stand Argentine legislators have moved to fill the post of provisional president of the Senate, which had been left vacant since last April in accordance with the wishes of President Peron. Italo Luder, a moderate Peronist who heads the chamber's Foreign Relations Com- mittee, now becomes next in line for the Presidency should Maria Estela de Peron leave office. The move by the Senate is a tactical defeat for the President, who had deliberately kept the post open in hopes of precluding a move to oust her and to ensure her con- trol over the presidental succession, should she decide to resign. The election itself reflects at least a temporary erosion of the Peronist chain of command and highlights Mrs. Peron's failure to manage her own government coalition. The selection of Luder, who is not likely to be easily controlled by the President's wily mentor, Jose Lopez Rega, may presage further problems for the chief executive. In keeping with the spirit of rebellion in which he was elected, Luder appeared to snub Mrs. Peron ill his acceptarce speech by not even mentioning her name and calling for "a new political framework: pluralist dialog." The 56-year-old senator from Buenos Aires Province gave special thanks to the loyal opposition, the Radical Civic Union, which had unanimously supported him. A lawyer by profession, Luder is a specialist in constitutional law and a noted academician. He is frank and direct and has been described as level-headed and sensible. Luder is a pragmatist in foreign policy mat- ters. He has stated that ideology, passion, and national shibboleths should have no place in foreign affairs, July 16, 1975 pproved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 3.5(c) � Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 5felt-f although he recognizes that a foreign policy must be packaged and presented in such a way as to be accept- able to domestic opinion. He has told US Embassy officers in Buenos Aires that he favors a close re- lationship betweer the United States and Argentina that would be mutually beneficial without infringing on Argentina's sovereignty. He visited this country briefly on a foreign leader grant in mid-1974. With seemingly no one currently on the political scene who could capture the Argentine imagination, ;Alder appears to be one of the best of the available candidates. As one journalist commented when Luder was jeered by an ultra-right-wing Peronist group, "With enemies like that, Luder can't be all bad." His election, at the very least, is a plus for con- stitutionalism in Argentina. 3.5(c) July 16, 1975 pproved for Release: 2018/10/26 0026930221.m.immimm... Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 Approved for Release: 2018/10/26 002693022 NR