Word: peronism
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Evidently, Juan Peron knew the student's preference for democracy over fascism, for his tight security grip on all university activities points up his fear of the students. Not only was the name of every student, professor, and administrator on file with the "Servicio de Enlance y Coordinacion," but this secret police organization kept complete dossiers on over 70,000 people connected with universities. Tapped phone calls, unsigned reports of conversations, lists of friends--all appeared in abundance to keep 48 full-time employees busy in a small three-story building. These offices are now shut down and carefully guarded...
...National Student Association to an international conference in Chile, Einaudi spent ten days in Buenos Aires at the invitation of the main student organization of Argentina, the Federation Universitaria Argentina. With the cooperation of FUA and the government of General Lonardi, the Harvard junior was shown files kept by Peron on every university student in Argentina and was asked to publicize what he found to people in this country...
Some students joined professors in Peron's spy network by reporting on activities of fellow students. But most students either kept quiet or joined the violently anti-Peron group, FUA. On October 5, 1954, Peron began to close his grip on FUA. State police, dressed as private citizens, engineered a fist-fight in a student meeting in Buenos Aires and several students were jailed. FUA then called a strike, which 95 percent of the students in the city observed. Armed police then moved in on the protesting students, and the result was 200 students in jail, 500 expelled from...
...sweltering Nicaragua, Tacho Somoza readied a modest house on his cattle and cotton ranch, which overlooks the Pacific, for Peron. "He will be my house guest," said Tacho. "I might even give him a chance to do some work with a pick and shovel." But there were hints that Tacho, too, hoped that discredited Juan Peron would soon move on again...
...Caracas, Venezuela, for the weekend. Since bosomy Italian Actress Silvana Pampanini was occupying the Hotel Tamanaco's luxurious presidential suite, Peron made do with lesser quarters and jovially met the press on the terrace. What about Nelly? the reporters asked. "I'm too old for politics, war or women," joked 60-year-old Juan Peron. What did he think of Argentina's new president, General Eduardo Lonardi? "Lonardi is like the man who leaped from the roof of a twelve-story building and yelled as he passed the fourth floor, 'I'm doing well...