Word: uriburu
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
Contrary to early, exaggerated reports 1,000 people were not killed but 17. The capture of Buenos Aires by General Uriburu was a parade. Swinging cheerfully down the city's wide (and prodigiously long) avenues, his troops parried hugs and kisses from both male and female citizens. All local soldiery had at once gone over to General Uriburu who now styled himself "Supreme Revolutionary Commander...