Word: democracia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buenos Aires press, reveling in its new-found freedom, backed Revolutionary General Aramburu with a unanimity such as Peron, for all his powers and pressures, never quite commanded. Democracia, a paper that Peron used to favor with his own editorial comments, coyly signed "Descartes," commented approvingly, "This is not vengeance but justice." Asked El Laborista, "Is it not proof of wrongdoing to have a billion pesos when one started with nothing ten years ago?" So bitter was the feeling against the Peronista fat cats that no one even asked whether confiscation was constitutional, or a safe precedent...
...following day Cardinal Copello visited Peron, and rumors flew about that the two leaders had arranged a peace. But Peron & Co. soon punctured that wishful thought. The Ministry of Education abruptly accused Catholic schools of defrauding the government of $300,000 by padding payrolls. Sneered the Peronista newspaper Democracia: "These are the would-be monopolists of morality...
Chipping & Sniping. Despite the flare-up of resistance-or perhaps because of it-Perón & Co. kept right on with the sniping. In the province of Córdoba, the legislature voted to withdraw all subsidies from Roman Catholic schools. In Buenos Aires, the Peronista newspaper Democracia called for the removal of Roman Catholic "idols" (i.e., religious statues) from schools. Interior Minister Angel Borlenghi signed a decree authorizing non-Catholic religious organizations to provide "material and spiritual help" in hospitals and prisons and charitable institutions-a privilege previously reserved to the Roman Catholic Church. And persistent rumors...
Time for Reminders. To Argentines, the speech was a breath-taking turnabout. Evita Peron's newspaper Democracia rose loyally to the new challenge by delivering a forthright attack on meat: "It will wreck your liver, undermine your health, poison you with proteins and provoke serious digestive disturbances." But the presidential conversion gave the Radical Party weekly Adelante a first-class chance to trounce the regime...
...Democracia...