Word: laboristas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he became an able and aggressive labor leader, Cipriano Reyes was a circus tight-rope walker, packinghouse worker and longshoreman. An early Peronista, he helped the president to power, later he broke with Perón. Through his leadership of the small but active Laborista party he turned to fighting Peronista control of labor. From Buenos Aires last week leaked an account of how a man with such savvy and background could be sucked into a futile conspiracy: Perón's police had mousetrapped...
About two months ago, according to anti-Perón sources in Buenos Aires, Air Force Lieutenants "Puig" and "Pereyra" sought out Reyes and a Laborista colleague, Dr. Walter Beveragge Alfende. (Puig was really Police Lieut. Walter Pereyra; Pereyra was Detective Inspector Salomon Wasserman.) The officers had spun a yarn of a highly organized air force plot to do away with Perón. Laborista political backing was solicited. To overcome Reyes' natural skepticism, conspiratorial meetings were held in the Avenida Quintana headquarters of the Civil Aviation General Administration; Air Force General Gregorio Velez, boss of civil aviation, gave...
Good Buying. Prosperous (circ. 300,000) Noticias, an afternoon sheet, was a logical buy for Eva's holding company, Editorial Democracia, which already owned the dailies Democracia and Laborista. Evita's pet, and purest example of the Peron press, is Democracia, which has built up to a 200,000 circulation and rolls gaily along; losing about 10 million pesos ($2,091,000) a year. Democracia has a staff photographer who specializes in pictures of Evita herself; a dozen or so may turn up in a single edition. For the most part Evita does her editing by telephone. When...
Perhaps the Red leaders would eventually go underground again; they had prospered there during the repressive days of Dictator Getulio Vargas. Or they might even run for office on the Laborista ticket of Strange Bedfellow Vargas, once their desperate enemy, now their desperate ally...
...imported them to provide food, clothing and transportation to the 3,513 inhabitants of the wintry archipelago at the tip of South America. On arrival from Sweden, the antlered immigrants were welcomed by Minister of Marine Rear Admiral Fidel Anadon. Said Buenos Aires' semi-official daily El Laborista: "[They are] the advance guard of the Plan Quinquenal which will make Tierra del Fuego a magnificent exponent of social and economic progress...