Castillo & Council

At a routine press conference last week Argentina's Acting President Ramon S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada.

The Buenos Aires Municipal Council has had some ugly scandals recently, but has turned its racketeering members over to the courts. Nevertheless, Senor Castillo used this graft as grounds for firing the whole Council.

Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razon, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramon Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party.

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