Word: peron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chief aims of President Pedro Aramburu and the officers around him-as mirrored by their own words and deeds-took firm shape last week. They intend to wipe out the cult of Juan Peron, free the economy from strangling Peronist controls and then run off fair elections. The week saw dramatic steps toward all three ends...
Deperonizatlon. "To recover stolen wealth," a government decree confiscated the property of 263 persons and 68 corporations alleged to have grown fat under Peron. A National Wealth Recovery Board was empowered to administer the seized property as it saw fit. Most conspicuous on the list, except for Peron himself* and his late wife Eva, was Tycoon Jorge Antonio, 38, who rose in the last decade from a hospital orderly to the possessor of a fortune reported to total $215 million (rolled up in Mercedes-Benz cars, Capehart radios and phonographs, grains, publishing, radio...
Suddenly two of the ten heroic statues atop the Buenos Aires building that was to have been headquarters for the huge Eva Peron Charity Foundation appeared shrouded in burlap. The pair: a complacent Juan Peron, hand on hip, surveying Buenos Aires in an open-collared shirt, and a saintly Eva Peron, in a plain dress with outstretched hand. Thus, with monumental effrontery, had Peron ranked himself and his wife with Argentina's Washington, General Jose de San Martin (the seven remaining statues symbolized old age, children, various typical workers). Aramburu's government planned to lower...
Also removed from public view were some live Peronistas. Major General Franklin Lucero. the Army Minister who shored up Juan Peron after last June's unsuccessful revolution, and Major General Jose Humberto Sosa Molina, Peron's Defense Minister, were jailed. So was Hugo de Pietro, last Peronista boss of the General Confederation of Labor...
...dismantling Peron's works meant less freedom for a few of the strongman's collaborators, it meant a welcome extra measure of freedom for the majority of Argentines. President Aramburu abolished Peron's most oppressive legal tool, the State Security Law that for ten years provided pretexts for arresting the dictator's enemies. And having closed up the hated, Subsecretariat of Press. Peron's main propaganda mill. Aramburu started news flowing freely out of the government once again...