Word: uriburu
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...Lords of the Pampas." As man of the hour emerged General Jose Evaristo Uriburu, retired. Scion of the rich, land owning classes-the "Lords of the Pampas" against whom Dr. Irigoyen fought his way to power as the champion of the working class-General Uriburu was nevertheless supposed to have been a personal friend of El Hombre, to have owed to him his rank of general...
...blood is thicker than gratitude. In the night after Dr. Irigoyen's temporary retirement, General Uriburu secretly joined a group of wealthy and aristocratic brother officers, all bent on revolution, at the Campo de Mayo barracks. By dawn their troops were on the march. Ahead of the columns flew battle planes, zooming and thundering over Buenos Aires, raining down leaflets. One plane dived low over Argentina's Casa Rosada ("Pink House"), peppering the Executive Mansion with machine gun bullets. Frantic crowds snatched the bulletins with joy, read an exhortation to "rise" signed "Military Junta." They rose...