Word: lonardi
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Militarily, the next try, just three months later, was even less brilliant. The rebels under General Eduardo Lonardi took inland Cordoba, but General Aramburu, attempting to subvert the garrison at Curuzu Cuatia, had to get out afoot when Perón poured reinforcements against him. After three days of fighting, Perón's general staff in Buenos Aires correctly concluded that it could contain the uprising-and it probably would have, except for a rebel admiral named Isaac Rojas, who had commanded the uprising at a naval base, was now heading for the capital in the captured cruiser...
Deperonization. The luck of the struggle dictated that Heroes Lonardi and Rojas should be the new President and Vice President. Because the revolution had no goals beyond liberation, the succeeding days became a time for opportunistic maneuvering by the political forces of right, center and left. The right soon captured Lonardi and sold him a policy of appeasing Peronistas in the hope of forming them into a right-wing political party. Item: Lonardi refused to take La Prensa away from the C.G.T. Other revolutionary leaders watched in rising dismay. One Sunday afternoon two months after Lonardi took office, the revolutionaries...
Died. Lieut. General Eduardo Lonardi, 59, who overthrew the ten-year rule of Argentina's Strongman Juan Peron in last year's five-day revolution, served as provisional President for 50 days, until ousted by a palace coup (TIME, Nov. 21) for his moderate attitude toward defeated Peronistas; after long illness; in Buenos Aires' Central Military Hospital. Soft-spoken General Lonardi spent a year (1947-48) in Washington as Argentina's representative on the Inter-American Defense Board, was forced out of the army in 1951 for allegedly plotting against Peron. Jailed for eight months...
...inevitable clash broke out at midweek with a demand from the liberal faction that Lonardi oust the "clerical Fascists" in his Cabinet. Giving in, he fired Bengoa and Goyeneche. But the liberals' pleasure quickly faded when Lonardi wrote out a manifesto to the nation. Said he: "The government prefers that some guilty persons escape rather than permit some innocent persons to suffer" -a plain slap at Vice President Rojas' plan for mass trials. Further inflaming the crackdown group, Lonardi fired Minister Busso...
...Democracy, Yes!" Hastily the Consultative Council met in the Congress building, and while a crowd outside bellowed "Democracy, yes! Nazis, no!" 18 liberal members turned in their resignations in protest against Lonardi's actions. That in effect ended the young government. Through most of Sunday, Lonardi talked to a stream of visiting generals and politicos. Their joint decision was that Lonardi must give way to a leader with a firmer attitude toward the dis credited Perónistas. Exhausted and sick (reportedly from ulcers), he gave...