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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

A few are Nasser-style nationalists; others are former Peronista officers.

From Time Magazine Archive

Argentine trade unions, many, still under Peronista thumbs, see only that the cost-of-living index, based at 100 in 1943, has ballooned to an estimated 1,011.

From Time Magazine Archive

At 8 p.m. the exiled dictator went to dinner with Isabelita, his pretty young wife, a Spanish police officer assigned to guard him. and a few Peronista visitors from Argentina.

From Time Magazine Archive

Almost all business, transport and industry began to slow down, but Frondizi's Labor Minister declared the strike illegal, and police quickly rounded up 350 Communist and Peronista labor leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early in October, Plaza blamed the 1955 church burnings on Masons, not Peronistas.

From Time Magazine Archive

For several weeks the Peronistas had had the run of the street.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most churchmen still denounce Peron, but last week Monsignor Antonio Jose Plaza, 49-year-old archbishop of the industrial city of La Plata, was trying to lure the 2,000,000 Peronistas still left into a proclerical political party.

From Time Magazine Archive

But when Isabel accepted the vice-presidential nomination, an honor that Eva had declined in 1951, angry Peronistas began tearing out the eyes on her posters.

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

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