Word: marquez
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That opportunity came with the Senate investigation. Though the sale had been approved by the preceding administration, Ortiz' longtime friend, War Minister Gen eral Carlos D. Marquez, was held morally responsible, since he had authorized payment. The conservatives lost no time in making political hay of this, used it as a reflection on the whole Ortiz regime...
Nazi Alarm. In Buenos Aires on May 25, Reserve Lieutenant Guillermo Eduardo Nelson Horrocks pronounced a eulogistic defense of totalitarian governments and of Nazi war methods at the annual banquet of the Reserve Officers of the Argentine Armed Forces. Investigation ordered by War Minister Brigadier General Carlos D. Marquez connected Horrocks with an abortive Rightist revolution, touched off a nationwide roundup of Nazi sympathizers, started a systematic examination of German schools...
...General Marquez and Minister of Interior Diogenes Taboada sent their own men to the scene. Nazi suspects began accusing each other, naming similar organizations throughout Argentina, all under the direction of the German Embassy. More rifles and machine guns were found by following directions of the suspects and most of the guns were identified as contraband, smuggled from Brazil after President Getulio Vargas put down an Integralistas (fascist) revolt there in 1938. Complete storm-troop kits were discovered, each containing two revolvers, a supply of hand grenades, a Nazi dagger, a steel helmet, an identification tag and iron rations...