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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...
State of Siege. Under the command of General Franklin Lucero, Perón's trusted Army Minister, the government fought back. Lucero & Co. put the entire country under a state of siege, clamped an 8 p.m. curfew on the capital. Loyalist forces besieged the Rio Santiago naval base. Pounded by planes and outnumbered at least two to one on the ground, the defending navymen surrendered late that night. The next morning the government announced that its troops had wrested Arroyo Seco and Curuzú-Cuatiá from the rebels...
Rebels rejected a loyalist plea to consider Buenos Aires an open city. The government showed its shakiness by cutting off telephone communications between Buenos Aires and the outside world and restricting press dispatches to official statements. In that shadowy dimout, a government bulletin announced that General Lucero had invited rebel leaders to the Army Ministry in Buenos Aires to negotiate a ceasefire...
...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...