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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

Hardly anyone in Argentina expected that the transition from the military junta of General Alejandro Lanusse to the newly elected civilian government of Peronista President-elect Hector Campora would be peaceful.

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

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

Not every Peronista has been glad to see her.

From Time Magazine Archive

But on leaving, he remarked calmly that Peronistas would probably have received the same kind of welcome had they attended a Radical party meeting.

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

Weary of living in political limbo and anxious to participate again in the democratic process, many regarded as Peronistas or followers of Frondizi cast their ballots for other candidates.

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

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