Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bomb blasts, loud but mostly harmless, have shaken Buenos Aires 15 times in the last 2½ months. Juan Peron, foiled in his frantic attempts to catch the culprits, lashed out at all his enemies, even hinted that the U.S. supplied the explosives. But last week Peron got his hands on some authentic terrorists...
...inflation troubles, Juan Perón last week scrapped his recent policy of sweet forbearance to the U.S. (adopted after President Eisenhower's inauguration) and took a running dive back on to his old, angry anti-U.S. line. In his annual message to the reconvening Congress, Peron accused U.S. press services of an "infamous campaign of lies" to spread the idea that Argentina is undergoing a crisis. (A bomb, the eighth in Buenos Aires that day, burst one block from the Congress building while he was speaking.) That afternoon, at the jammed Plaza de Mayo...
...Juan Duarte's luck to be the brother of a frail, high-voltage blonde named Evita, who married Juan Peron and became the most powerful woman of her time. In 1946, at Evita's suggestion, Soap Salesman Juan became Peron's No. 1 secretary. Though he liked to hit the nightclubs of Buenos Aires with an endless chain of slick señoritas, Bachelor Duarte never became much of a public figure. But over the years, he prospered wondrously. Rigged deals on the stock exchange, a cut on imported cars and machinery, black-market operations in meat...
...last note was to Peron. "I have been H-O-N-E-S-T," he had scrawled, "ana no one can prove otherwise...
...years after it erroneously reported the death of a famed Spanish baritone, he would not print an ad for the singer's latest Buenos Aires concert. Barely conscious since a cerebral hemorrhage in 1943, Don Ezequiel was never told of La Prensa's seizure by Dictator Juan Peron in 1951, died without even a one-line obituary in his old paper...