Word: nistas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such actions might have been laughed off by the Alemánistas as mere grandstand plays or as signs of the new President's personal eccentricities. But Ruiz Cortines soon showed that he was out to clean up government from top to bottom. He abruptly ordered all treasury payments stopped while government contracts were reexamined. His Communications Minister reported getting a bill for one 75-mile highway that had been registered as completed and even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called...
...Burned by a rioting Perónista...
...nista militia got its first important workout during last September's abortive military uprising. C.G.T. Boss José Espejo shouted the radio alarm. On cue, workers rushed to the presidential palace; in the suburbs drivers jammed their big diesel buses across roads by which troops or tanks might have moved on the capital. After the revolt was snuffed out, "special mission'' groups of workers' militia swung briskly into action, rounding up and arresting suspects, running spot checks for illegal arms...
...only real campaign gesture of the week from the big Perónista machine was a speech by Evita herself. From her sickbed at the presidential residence, she made a tearful radio appeal to women to vote for her husband. Once again she broke down, as she regretted that she could not join in the fight. It was officially announced from the palace, after Dr. George Pack, a New York cancer surgeon, flew to Buenos Aires for a day's consultation, that Evita's doctors would wait a further ten days to decide whether an operation was indicated...
...extra copies available (Perón controls the newsprint and holds the circulation down to 180,000 daily). Dealers sell copies for 25 times the normal price. When La Natión reported last week's rail strike factually instead of parroting the government line, the Perónista press and radio launched a vicious attack on the paper. Recalling that La Prensa had been similarly attacked for objective reporting of last January's rail strike, observers wondered whether this might be a prelude to a final assault on La Nati...