Word: peronista
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...replacement, Aramburu appointed Carlos Adrogué, a longtime anti-Peronista who tries to go down the middle of the road on the religious issue. Loud cries of Roman Catholic resentment at Dell'Oro's ousting suggested that the President had by no means settled the problem. But all Argentines took smiling satisfaction in the fact that opposing factions could dispute and demonstrate freely on a vital public issue without fear of Perón-style oppression. Even ex-Minister Dell'Oro said: "I'm proud of the free debates going on at this moment over this...
...smell of so much corruption only encouraged the zealous investigators to go on. But already there were hints of favoritism, and signs that continued prying might embarrass the new government. The decree ending investigations seemed to be a prudent recognition that bullying Peronista bullies could eventually get to be too much of a good thing...
...undercut Perón's pretensions to righteousness, an official investigating committee reported that during his twelve years in power, Peronista Congressmen raised their combined personal assets from 6,650,000 pesos to a fat 206,000,000 pesos -among the biggest gainers being the pair who offered the greatest number of congressional resolutions of homage...
...Aramburu made a nationwide radio speech that opened the door for disgusted Peronistas to throw in with the new regime: "Many pinned their hopes to [Peronista] banners full of vain promises. They did not make a mistake; they were led into it. The guilty were not the simple folk, but those who raised the fraudulent banners...
...vigor and persistence of the disorders evidently alarmed Aramburu. At week's end the government hastily freed 66 former Peronista Congressmen "in keeping with a healthy policy of pacification." It was the first time the regime had spoken of pacification...