Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the anti-Perón front scheduled a mighty mass meeting for Buenos Aires' Plaza de la Republica. It would be Tamborini's first campaign test, very possibly a test of just how bravely democrats would stand up to dynamic Juan...
Both the size and the composition of the crowd that turned out in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Independencia to cheer Citizen Perón's first public campaign speech struck dismay into good Argentine democrats. The Perón followers (estimated at 200,000) were almost as impressive in numbers as the Democratic Unionists who had gathered the week before to shout Perón down. Milling about with the usual Perón nationalists and bullyboys were thousands of well-dressed, middle-class voters. Perón's attempt to split off a sector of Argentina...
Some 25,000 eager aficionados paid scalpers up to $200 a seat for the thrill of watching Spain's finest torero, slight, 28-year-old, chinless Manolete (born Manuel Rodríguez,), make his first appearance in the Mexican bull ring. Outside Mexico City's Plaza de Toros, some 200 Federal troops, 50 tear-gas squadmen and two fire-engine crews restrained the thousands who could not get tickets...
...scrimmage pitted the well-marshaled leftists of Apra (the People's Party, and Peru's largest) against Communists, fascists and students who tried to demonstrate in Lima's Plaza Universitaria against the Government's new press law. Outnumbering the hardy demonstrators by 20,000 to 200, the Apristas waved white handkerchiefs, drowned out the anti-Government orators by clapping in rhythmic unison (two short, one long). Then in perfectly formed ranks their columns closed in. They seized the opposition's banners, fought with fists and sticks. Guns popped. After the police finally cleared the Plaza...
...bill was only mildly restrictive (nothing like the law it replaced), reactionary papers like El Comercio and La Prensa and the pipsqueak smear-sheets that Latins call pasquines rebelled most at the requirement that they publish a statement of ownership, stirred up the fuss that ended in the Plaza scuffle...