Word: peronism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus Juan Peron exhibited one of the qualities that distinguish him from most other dictators. Argentina's lawfully elected President is passionately addicted to legalising he will go to any lengths, however ludicrous, to accomplish his ends in a "legal" way. As a result, his five-year regime has been marked by surprisingly little rough stuff; his formula has been approximately 90% cloak and 10% dagger...
...unionists, who knew a good thing when they saw it, acclaimed Eva wildly. Instead of just "Perón! Peron!" the people cried: "Perón! Perón! Evita!" in the big square before the palace. Under her driving command, the big General Confederation of Labor became a docile Pe-ronista instrument, its main function reduced to carrying out orders and staging periodic mass demonstrations in the square. To a friend, Perón confided: "Evita deserves a medal for what she's done for labor. She's worth more to me than five ministers...
Dictator Juan Peron, always at pains to keep his dirty work legal, executed a maneuver last week that gave the sanction of the law to the strangling of La Prensa. By terms of the law, the great independent newspaper was expropriated by the government...
After the bill passed, La Nation, the country's last surviving major independent newspaper, once again took its life in its hands to denounce the Peron regime for violating "the categoric constitutional precept which prohibits Parliament from passing laws which restrict the freedom of the press...
...said they kept demanding he confess to an alleged complicity with American citizens he never knew in an imaginary plot aimed at the assassination of Peron. "I told them I would rather die than admit to such a falsehood," he said...