Word: lucero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebellion of June 16, the top army generals again rushed to Perón's rescue (or rather to the rescue of the offices, privileges and rackets they stood to lose if the rebels won). Perón's old crony and army minister, balding General Franklin Lucero, again took command of all loyalist military and police units-the "forces of repression" as the government baldly labeled them. But it was not as underlings carrying out Perón's orders that Lucero & Co. acted. Whether he was shoved or merely nudged, Perón hurried offstage...
...After Lucero and other inner-circle generals propped Perón on his feet last June, they let him take control again, hoping that they could go back to privileged prosperity as usual. But during the post-revolt interlude of "pacification," Perón utterly failed to pacify his opponents: he offered too little freedom, too late. Three weeks ago, dropping the mask of pacification, he summoned his hardcore of labor followers to the Plaza de Mayo, ferociously called for his enemies' annihilation; that may have triggered a revolt that showed signs of long planning...
...House, that Perón was not above challenge, the rebels cut his prestige to a doubtful quantity at the beginning of the week. Already the church had excommunicated him, and he found it prudent to turn the post-revolt mop-up entirely over to Army Minister General Franklin Lucero. In some offices government employees discreetly took down his portrait from the wall. Ominously, the official evening newscast failed to start at 8:25 p.m. with the requisite explanatory phrase that it was "the moment [one night three years ago] when Eva Perón entered immortality." Argentine athletes dropped...
...next presidential election, or the good standing with the U.S. that he demonstrated by getting a $60 million loan this year. Whatever happened, the 8:25 news program dedicated to Eva went back on the air, and Perón's portraits went back on the walls. Lucero began to look less like a new strongman and more like...
...tension relaxed enough to present Giordano's Andrea Chenier, which sings of a French revolutionary's doomed, gallant fight for what many Argentines still wish they had: liberty. By midweek the army troops who had occupied central Buenos Aires were back in their barracks, and General Lucero publicly handed back the special "repression" powers that for another, more ambitious man might have been an admirable springboard to total power...