Word: bramuglia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some notable pals who walked the plank in earlier years: Cipriano Reyes, who mobilized packinghouse workers to catapult Perón to power in 1945, arrested (and still jailed after seven years); Miguel Miranda, Perón's onetime economic czar, ousted: Juan Bramuglia, Foreign Minister who incurred the wrath of Eva Perón, and Oscar Ivanissevich. Education Minister who wrote the pep song Peronista Boys, both forced to resign: Domingo Mercante, governor of Buenos Aires Province, humiliated and ousted; Juan Duarte, Perón's own brother-in-law and private secretary, repudiated and fired...
...ardent nationalist intellectual with good family connections in the Peronista Party, Hipólito Paz asked Perón one day in 1949 to make him vice consul in Mallorca so that he could write a novel there. Perón, having just sacked overambitious Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia, was at that moment in the market for a Foreign Minister of a more unobtrusive type. He picked Paz, who has made a modest success in the job as a 100% loyal Peronista...