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Peronista

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[per-uh-nis-tuh, pe-raw-nees-tah] / ˌpɛr əˈnɪs tə, ˌpɛ rɔˈnis tɑ /

noun

Peronistas plural
  1. Peronist.


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Kirchner, a leftist leader of Argentina’s populist Peronista movement, was the country’s president from 2007 to 2015.

From Washington Post Sep. 1, 2022

Not every Peronista has been glad to see her.

From Time Magazine Archive

A pastoral letter last week summed up the story of Peronista persecution of the church but added that these wrongs could be "forgiven and forgotten."

From Time Magazine Archive

Once in Buenos Aires she could see for herself the signs of Peronista change.

From Time Magazine Archive

As posters appeared throughout Argentina hailing Isabelita as "the perfect Peronista" and "Evita's successor," the lady herself tried to look and act like "the little Madonna," as Eva was called.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some 30,000 troops, backed by tanks, sealed off Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport to all but a few carefully screened Peronistas and newsmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even before he began to speak to the 100,000 Peronistas who had massed in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, battle-battered partisans were being passed over the heads of the crowd to waiting ambulances.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peronistas had hoped she might be given a papal title that would enable Argentina's First Lady, born on the wrong side of the tracks, to out-snoot Buenos Aires' stuffy aristocracy.

From Time Magazine Archive

In September, Plaza gathered 1,000 Catholics, most of them Peronistas, to open a "Christian Social Week."

From Time Magazine Archive

Loyal Peronistas promptly attempted to turn her homecoming into a joyous re-enactment of the Oct.

From Time Magazine Archive

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