Word: uriburu
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...high school boys entered the room. The neophytes chorused an oath, swearing to defend with their lives "the permanent values of Christianity and country." Then they swelled their chests as a blue and white Maltese Cross was pinned to their lapels. Cried the leader of the meeting, Alberto Ezcurra Uriburu, 26: "We must fight with one hand against capitalism and Zionism, and with the other against Communism...
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...
...thick and their suits cut on Savile Row lines, will riot over an increase in the cost of living-but not over the fall of an elected government. Cynical corruption wrecked the middle-class Radicals' one chance in power (1916-30), and the disgusted army sent General Jose Uriburu, astride a white charger and backed by 10,000 troops, to take over the presidential residence, the Casa Rosada. The brass has never been out of politics since...
...when Dictator José Uriburu threatened to close La Prensa unless it stopped attacking him, the paper's tough old owner and publisher, Ezequiel Pedro Paz, told him that he would move the paper to Paris and keep up the fight from there. General Uriburu piped down. That was 16 years ago, and Don Ezequiel, paralyzed by a stroke in 1943, has never known that his paper was closed for five days in April 1944, for opposing the militarist Farrell regime...
...Palito was sent to learn with Kaiser Wilhelm's 5th Hussars. Well trained, Lieut. Ramirez returned home, devoted himself to rising via captain and colonel to general and Minister of War. In 1930 he made a name for himself in the last generals' revolt, that of Jose Uriburu, who ousted, unconstitutionally, President Hipolito Irigoyen. As a reward, he became military attache in Rome...