Word: tacuara
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Such was the scene last week at a session of Tacuara, a shadowy society of young terrorists who lead a wave of neo-Nazism that is rising in Argentina. Though still minuscule in a nation of 21 million, Tacuara has grown in four years from a handful of fanatics to an estimated 4,000 members. It is chiefly responsible for a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents in a South American nation that has long been troubled by ultranationalism and racial prejudice...
Most of those who militate in Tacuara (average age: 17) are the fanatic children of families that lost their wealth during and after Peron. Tacuara Leader Ezcurra Uriburu, scion of a once-proud family, works days as a paint sprayer in a motorcycle repair shop and blames the Jews for the country's problems. "We are against a society permeated and dominated by Jews," he says...
...past two years, Jews have reported no fewer than 200 anti-Semitic attacks. The Argentine government has voiced its "energetic repudiation" of Tacuara. But Buenos Aires police have yet to pin a crime on a Tacuara member. Three weeks ago, three youths were arrested after firing shots into a theater showing a Jewish-theme play. All were subsequently released...
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