Word: dorrego
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...Baltasar Bustos, Manuel Varela and Xavier Dorrego frequent the cafes of Buenos Aires. They're in love with Rousseau, Diderot, clocks and, like all selfrespecting romantics, the prospect of Latin American democracy. In Carlos Fuentes' The Campaign, Varela reminisces 10 years later...
...Citizens,' exclaims Dorrego when I go into raptures over my religious clock. 'Remember that now we are citizens.' And that seduced us and bound us together as well: the name of our group is the Citizens...
...Argentina's generals. The separate commands of the armed forces were abolished shortly before the inaugural. Perón now is in direct command of the entire military, a position that should allow him to suppress any potential revolt before it gets very far. He also launched "Operation Dorrego," a flood-relief project in which army units worked with Peronist youth to reclaim lands ruined by disastrous floods earlier this year. Significantly, a "provisional council" has been set up and is charged with "ideological purification" of the Justicialist Party. What this means in effect is a purge...
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