re: #93 Gus

Some history.

Reynaldo Bignone
President of Argentina
General. Dictator
July 1, 1982 – December 10, 1983

Argentine general election, 1983

Winner?

Ral Alfonsn
Radical Civic Union
December 10, 1983 – July 8, 1989

So after years of military dictatorship Argentina elected, democratically elected, a new president to replace the goon squad responsible for the murder of over 30,000 Argentine citizens?

The US response?

Ousting the Sandanistas was a key Reagan priority, and he wasn’t going to make concessions to a president of a Latin American nation seen as favoring them. Summits had no effect because the two men had different goals.