Word: campos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a band of Argentine officers revolted last Easter, President Raul Alfonsin rushed to the Campo de Mayo army garrison near Buenos Aires and talked the mutineers into surrendering. Faced last week with another rebellion of disgruntled soldiers in the northeastern city of Monte Caseros, Alfonsin chose not to waste any more words. Instead he sent 2,000 loyalist troops to crush the rebels at a local army base, ending a three-day uprising that had spread to several other units...
...latest confrontation began when angry officers staged uprisings at a barracks near Cordoba, some 400 miles north of Buenos Aires, and at the Campo de Mayo army base just outside the capital. Their chief demand: amnesty from prosecution for human rights violations. Alfonsin personally intervened to end < the three-day rebellion at Campo de Mayo. With more than 1,000 loyal government soldiers approaching the base on Sunday, he helicoptered from the presidential palace for a face-to-face talk with Lieut. Colonel Aldo Rico, who led the uprising...
...mutineers, who had been holding about 2,000 loyal government troops at bay at the Campo de Mayo military base, were demanding an amnesty for officers accused of human rights violations under previous military governments...
...have asked the people who have been in Campo de Mayo to leave...and I ask all of you to return to your houses and kiss your children, to celebrate an Easter of peace in Argentina," he said...
Alfonsin, speaking to some 200,000 people from the balcony of Government House, had announced earlier Sunday he would go to the Campo de Mayo and meet with the rebels...