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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974. He was the only Argentine president elected three times and holds the highest percentage of votes in clean elections. Perón was one of the most important, and controversial, Argentine politicians of…
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politics · President of Argentina (1946–1955, 1973–1974) · military officer · politician · statesperson · also Juan Perón, Juan Domingo Perón, Perón
Born 8 October 1895 · Died 1 July 1974 · Q93330
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instagram.com: ➡ El objetivo de esta formación es sumar capacidades al equipo de salud, dentro del ámbito de competencia profesional, destacaron. ➡ El Hospital de Alta Complejidad “Pte. Juan Domingo Perón” y la Universidad Provincial de Laguna Blanca (UPLaB) culmi
novabonaerense.com: Mariano Cascallares encabezó el homenaje a Juan Perón en Solano
LA17: Un libro investiga la participación británica en el golpe de Estado de 1955 contra Perón
novabonaerense.com: Ensenada, 1953: el día que Juan Domingo Perón, hizo un acto en el balcón de la casa del histórico Toto Bianchi
Agencia de Noticias San Luis: Avanza la renovación integral del Servicio de Odontología del Hospital ‘Juan Domingo Perón’
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Discovered that the network was managed by Rodolfo Freude who had an office in the Casa Rosada and was close to Eva Perón's brother, Juan Duarte
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And followed by even deadlier repression under the junta of Jorge Rafael Videla
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Died 1974-07-01.
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“Opis: najbardziej zaufanym doradcą Isabel Perón był Jose López Rega, astrolog, który podawał się za czarodzieja.”
And remained a member until the term of Carlos Menem in 1991
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Perón returned amidst the Ezeiza massacre and was himself elected president for a third time (October 1973–July 1974)
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Career landmark: President of Argentina (1973–1974).
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And increasing the workers' share of national income
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This was described as "the national expression of socialism, insofar as it represents, expresses and develops in action the aspirations of the popular masses and the Argentine working class"
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Sent two letters to the film director Octavio Getino, one congratulating him for his work with Fernando Solanas and Gerardo Vallejo, in the Grupo Cine Liberación, and another concerning two film documentaries, La Revo
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His rival José Alonso in 1970, now in 1973 it was the turn of CGT leader José Rucci, and a year later building workers' union leader Rogelio Coria
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Calling him "one of ours, perhaps the best" and remarking that Peronism "as a national, popular and revolutionary movement, pays homage to the idealist, the revolutionary, Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara, Argentine guerri
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To meet political dissidents and advance Perón's policy of confrontation and electoral boycotts
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And their victories in congressional elections that year helped lead to the overthrow of the moderate President Arturo Illia, and to the return of dictatorship
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And when its candidate for governor of Buenos Aires Province (Andrés Framini) was elected, Frondizi was forced to resign by the military
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And was admitted back into the Catholic Church in 1963
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And became the precursor to all modern Catholic nationalist groups in Argentina; and the Revolutionary Nationalist Tacuara Movement (MNRT), formed by Joe Baxter and José Luis Nell, who joined Peronism believing in its ca
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Pavelić, fearing extradition to Yugoslavia, left for Francoist Spain in 1957
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– an unusual method of decommissioning a legitimate research facility
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Awarded Grand Cordon of the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum (1954).
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Awarded Order of the Liberator (1954).
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Awarded Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1953).
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Peronist crowds ransacked eleven Buenos Aires churches, including the Metropolitan Cathedral
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The year of the presidential elections, the people felt they had lost an ally
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To remedy the country's unsustainable trade deficit, the president remained generally popular
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Aeronautical Merit - White Decoration (1951).
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During their visit to Buenos Aires, Chaim Weizmann and Golda Meir expressed their gratitude for this aid
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Though his second term (1952–55) was troubled
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More than 5 million people (70% of the economically active population) were covered by social security
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That the Huemul Project would produce nuclear fusion before any other country
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Which still carries his name on its masthead
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Helped finance a recovery in 1951; but inflation, having risen from 13% in 1948 to 31% in 1949, reached 50% in late 1951 before stabilizing, and a second, sharper recession soon followed
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Under UN auspices (a move retracted in the face of public opposition)
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Established the Eva Perón Foundation, which was perhaps the greatest contribution to her husband's social policy
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Excluded Argentine exports from the Marshall Plan, the landmark Truman administration effort to combat communism and help rebuild war-torn European nations by offering U
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During the first term of Juan Perón
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And a feminist wing of the 3rd party in Argentina was formed
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Perón founded Organización Israelita Argentina (OIA), the Jewish wing of the Peronist Party, in attempt to promote his ideology amongst the Jewish community
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Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (1946).
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Awarded Grand Cross of Naval Merit with white badge (1946).
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Perón's government allowed Jewish army privates to celebrate their holidays, which was intended to foster Jewish integration
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Career landmark: President of Argentina (1946–1955).
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And to over 3 million in 1947, helping wrest needed labour reforms, though permanently aligning large employers against the Peronists
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President Perón took dramatic steps which he believed would result in a more economically independent Argentina, better insulated from events such as World War II
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Stojadinović went to Rio de Janeiro, and then to Buenos Aires, where he was reunited with his family
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Perón established two new institutions that would later increase wages: the "aguinaldo" (a bonus that provided each worker with a lump sum at the end of the year amounting to one-twelfth of the annual wage) and the Natio
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Career landmark: Vice President of Argentina (1944–1945).
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A coup d'état was led by General Arturo Rawson against Ramón Castillo, who had assumed the presidency a little less than a year earlier as the vice president of Roberto María Ortiz following Ortiz's resignation due to il
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Traveled with Perón to Europe to attempt an arms deal with Germany
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And started to implement the first elements of his ideology, it did not mark the end of democracy (as in 1922's Italy and 1933's Germany)
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Was not the end of the socialist impulse in Argentina; it was the culmination" and added that "much of the social legislation either introduced or implemented by Perón
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And served as an army skiing-instructor in Mendoza Province
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Perón was sent on a diplomatic mission to Europe
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Perón supported the coup against President Hipólito Yrigoyen, a decision he regretted
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Was appointed to the Army General Staff Headquarters
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At La Forestal, then a leading firm in forestry in Argentina
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And opened grain sales to the shortage-stricken Soviets
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Perón entered military college, and rose through the ranks
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To a boarding school in Buenos Aires directed by his paternal grandmother, where he received a strict Catholic upbringing
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Born 1895-10-08.
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Left his widow nearly destitute, however, and Perón's father moved to then-rural Lobos, where he administered an estancia and met his future wife
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