PERONISTAS AND NEW DEALERSThis work employs a corporatist analytical framework meshed with a comparative approach to examine inter American relations during the early years of the Cold War. The emergence of Juan and Eva Pern in Argentina provoked a major ideological crisis as Argentina briefly emerged as a rival to U. S. leadership in the Western Hemisphere at the end of World War II. As U. S. leaders were rising to meet the threat of communism in Europe and Asia, in South