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The Good Old Days

It´s not easy being a Peron

September 20th 2006
A week ago the body of General Juan Peron, was moved from the crowded and slightly rundown Charcarita Cemetery here in Buenos Aires to a mausoleum about thirty miles southwest of the city which was built in his honor by one of the powerful unions that Peron helped to create. The transferring of the body was originally intended to offer the Argentine people the chance to commemorate Peron’s great ... read more
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Argentine Flag Following independence from Spain in 1816, Argentina experienced periods of internal political conflict between conservatives and liberals and between civilian and military factions. After World War II, a long period of Peronist authoritarian rule an... ... read more
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