Word: peronization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fallen Dictator Juan Perón, taking the beaten track of most toppled Latin American strongmen, had asked the Buenos Aires embassy of neighboring Paraguay for asylum. Ambassador Juan Chaves escorted him to the 636-ton river gunboat Paraguay, and in that cramped refuge Juan Peron waited, his power to make Argentine history broken and dissolved...
Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
That sample of naval power was enough for the loyalist generals still holding out in Buenos Aires. Peron and his top followers bugged out to foreign embassies, leaving in charge an interim junta made up of 14 not-so-Peronista generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular...
Lonardi & Co. lost no time undertaking a brisk spring housecleaning. Jail doors flew open to let out Peron's political prisoners. New-broomed out of office were Peron's provincial governors and city officials. Lonardi dissolved the federal Congress, ordered all Peronista members arrested pending investigation. Elections were promised within eight months...
...government announced that the provinces of Presidente Peron and Eva Peron would resume their old names...