ine or not simply a modification or moulding of more traditional regimes.
             The rise of Juan Peron was as Vadney put it a 'lucky break'. As a result of the coup in 1943, "few of the officers involved had any better ideas about how to manage the new political classes that had been forming over the last several decades. But one among their number did. This was Juan Peron." As a member of the War Department, Peron was in a position to influence appointments in the army and thus to increase his personal following among the officer corps. And the Labour Department provided an opportunity to cultivate the masses, mainly by intervening in strikes to win settlements favourable to the working class and by co-opting the trade union leadership. He promoted the expansion of labour organisation as a way of furthering his own
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