Word: peronista
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...Peronistas, 16 provincial governments composed entirely of Peronistas, and all the national territories run entirely by Peronistas . . ." The time had come, the President suggested, for consolidation: "We must gradually convert [the Peronista movement] from a mass movement into a political institution...
...work out that way. With tired, angry shoppers comparing gripes by the hour, the queues became the focus for popular discontent. Last week, before 500 leaders of the Peronista Women's Party, Evita Peròn, looking pale and thin after her operation, took back her husband's blessing on queues and instead pronounced a curse. "Queues," she said, "must be destroyed. We have to get control of the streets. We have to eliminate the enemies...
When Perón closed down Buenos Aires' La Prensa a year ago, Editor Alberto Gainza Paz fled the country. But 75 other La Prensa newsmen who refused to work for the Peronista successor to the paper were not so fortunate; they had to stay in Argentina. By last week, on the anniversary of the paper's death, Perón's systematic campaign to blacklist and starve out the staffers had become a ruthless object lesson to other newsmen...
...independent, anti-Perón daily, to conform to his line. When La Prensa was closed, La Naión's Editorial Writer Alfonso de Laferrère wrote in La Naión: "A great voice has been silenced, but its echo will continue to vibrate . . ." The Peronistas soon went to work-as they had on La Prensa-totting up a trumped-up "customs bill" of 17 million pesos that the paper was supposed to owe the government. If La Naión steps out of line, it can be expropriated by the government, which could assess...
...Prensa will fare is anybody's guess. At first, circulation will certainly be ballooned by sales to the Peronista faithful. But atop La Prensa's stately old building, the beacon which once symbolized reason and truth was extinguished...