Word: campos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the temper of the ultra-nationalist Army officers at the Campo Mayo barracks was rising. Word had spread that they recently met and decided to force out Colonel Juan Domingo Perón, Vice President, Minister of War, Secretary of Labor and Welfare...
...Morinigo had long teetered on the fence between Argentina and the U.S. Short time ago the Frente de Guerra (War Front), a pro-Argentine group of Army officers, decided that he had perched there long enough. Led by hatchet-faced Colonel Benitez Vera, the 3,000-man garrison of Campo Grande set out for the center of Asunción, a few miles away, riding in Lend-Lease jeeps and trucks, guarded by Lend-Lease airplanes. President Morinigo met them, yielded to their demands...
Colonel Perón moved fast. His First Division marched out of Campo Mayo. His planes dropped flares, pinpointed Duco's troops. There were ultimatums, negotiations. The "Single Command," confused or suspicious, did not give the signal for general revolt. Duco was left alone. At last he surrendered, went to jail...
Troops alerted all over Buenos Aires. At Campo Mayo were 18,000 men who, with the ist and 2nd Infantry Regiments, were ready to strike for the colonels. For the President the nth Cavalry, the 3rd and 4th Infantry stood to arms. Two top colonels, Juan Domingo Peron and Eduardo Avalos, and War Minister Edelmiro Farrell conferred with President Ramirez at his residence. Ramirez backed down, agreed to sacrifice his Foreign Minister and Presidential Secretary. Later he denied that he had considered declaring...
...Naples. There, a few weeks later, in a waterfront hotel room from which he could look out on Mt. Vesuvius, Enrico Caruso died. His body, embalmed and buried for two years, was subsequently disinterred, carried in state through the Naples streets to its final resting place in the Campo Santo di Poggioreale cemetery. For several years thereafter the cemetery's gatekeeper was reported to have done a rushing business in tips showing Caruso's body to visiting tourists. In the late '20s the Caruso family put a stop to the tourist traffic, caused a stout slab...