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to power calls to mind one explanation of success offered by a big city boss in the United
States: “I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.”
Figure 23.2. Juan Peron
WHAT WERE PERON'S OPPORTUNITIES?
Juan Domingo Peron was born in 1895 to a family of Italian and French forebears. The
Argentina of his childhood was a country of knife-sharp inequality: rich cattle and wheat
barons whose estates encompassed hundreds of square miles aligned with rich merchants
and industrialists in the cities. Like many ambitious young men without family wealth, Per-
on found opportunities in the military. He became an army cadet at sixteen; his brains and
physical prowess marked him for success. He was six feet tall, winning medals as a skier
and boxer and as fencing champion of the army. Unlike most other military officers of his
generation, he had a serious interest in politics and sociology and wrote books on social
and political affairs.
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