Word: ferrazzano
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...Aramburu and his military advisers checked over the intelligence reports on a plot against them; then the officers acted. Cops and Marines burst into a meeting in La Plata, a meat-packing city 35 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, and arrested some 50 persons. Among them were General Heraclio Ferrazzano and Colonel Norberto Ugolini, a pair of cashiered officers, who, loyal to ex-Strongman Juan Perón, fought off insurrectionists at the Rio Santiago naval base during last September's successful anti-Perón revolution. Police followed up by questioning between 400 and 500 other known Peronistas...
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