Word: gamboa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, set out to do El Lider's bidding armed mainly with cans of gasoline. Gaily yelling "Perón! Perón!'', they broke into the empty headquarters of the Socialist Party and set it afire. Spectators, among them Police Chief Miguel Gamboa, gathered to watch the blaze. The arsonists, now a hundred strong, moved on to Radical Party offices and set them ablaze...
...hardly finished speaking when Buenos Aires' attentive police whooped into action. Five fishmongers were fined 5,000 pesos ($352) apiece and whisked off to Villa Devoto for 30 days. Next day, 20 butchers followed them, after shelling out 30,000 pesos each in fines. Miguel Gamboa, director general of prices and supplies, called to his office 800 other butchers and warned that new lists of ceiling prices would be enforced...