Word: ciudadano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ciudadano (The Citizen) is published occasionally, without official sanction, by Argentina's opposition Radical Party. Last week El Ciudadano hit Buenos Aires newsstands with a story that sold 40,000 copies to goggle-eyed citizens before police confiscated the rest of the edition. Its gist: Perón has formed a private militia from the ranks of his General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), and is preparing to arm it to the teeth...
Lethal Toys. So successful was this first trial run that it was decided to improve the workers' equipment. El Ciudadano published texts of three "very confidential" letters, dated last December, in which the Argentine firm of Ballester Molina contracted to deliver, for $580,000. a consignment of 5,000 automatic pistols and 2,000 carbines to the Eva Perón Social Aid Foundation. El Ciudadano somberly pointed out that such toys were obviously not for Senora Perón's famed Children's Village, nor for her junior soccer tournament...
Eight days later, before a crowd of 20,000 in Buenos Aires' Plaza Constitution, El Ciudadano's Editor Francisco H. Uzal repeated the story. "There can be no doubt that these guns are meant for the C.G.T.!" he shouted. As Uzal walked off the speaker's platform, two federal policemen met him and led him away through the crowd to jail...
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