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RECRUITMENT, TRAINING AND RESERVES Recruitment and Training Although six out of the fourteen major Latin American countries have passed universal conscription laws, in practice only Cuba, Argentina and perhaps Brazil insist on their application; elsewhere service tends, in fact if not in law, to be selective. ssed in 1901. As amended in 1905, it provided for 1 year of service in the army (or two in the navy, the choice to be decided by lottery). Naval service was subsequently reduced to 14 months, but the army and air force term is still1 year.
By then, however, Peron, who had once before attempted to re-enter the country, had become an active force in national politics. His nominee, Campora, was returned at the presidential elections of May, 1973 and in the next month Peron came home. Campora at once stood down and Peron was elected in his place, with his second wife, Isabel, as vice-president. He proved to have no easy solutions either to the country's economic problems or to the growing menace of terrorism, which was mounted by groups which had now moved far to the left of the position he was prepared to support.
A German military mission remained in Argentina until 1940, and hundreds of Argentinian officers went to Germany for training during those 40years. There is a higher war college at Buenos Aires, the Centro de Altos Estudios, which opened in 1943. Since World War II, German influence on the Argentinian army has naturally waned, to be replaced by American. Many ·Argentinian officers now attend the American staff and war colleges, as well as the School of the Americas in the Canal Zone, where anti-guerrilla warfare techniques are taught.