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A FASCIST MASSACRE The June 20, 1973 Ezeiza massacre thus marked the end of the alliance of left and right-wing peronists which Perón had managed to form. A populist and a nationalist, Perón was popular from the left-wing to the far-right, but this conjunction of forces took end on this day. During Perón's exile in . The following night, Buenos Aires' walls were covered by graffitis "Osinde assassin of the peronist people". THE CONTEXT: TAKE OUT OF POWER PRESIDENT HéCTOR CáMPORA The massacre had been premeditated to remove president Héctor Cámpora , rather moderate and left-wing, from power. During Cámpora's first month of governing, approximatively 600 social conflicts, strikes and Factory Occupations had taken place Hugo Moreno, ''op.cit.'', p.109 . Workers managed to obtain wages' increases and better work conditions, and the social tensions were increasing. The workers' movement had gathered the sympathy of large sectors, sometimes antiperonists, of the middle classes. On June 2 , 1973 , José Ignacio Rucci , general secretary of the CGT, had responded to a Cuban delegate to the CGT congress asking for a toast in honour of Che Guevara , that they were against left-wing imperialism. The peronist right-wing gradually took control of the whole of the trade-union organization, placing people close to the leader José Ignacio Rucci. Perón’s definitive return to Argentina, after 18 years of exile, thus put an end to the contradictions of peronism, which gathered political opponents in the same party. The battle near the Ezeiza airport marked the end of the transition period of Cámpora, who had succeeded to the authoritative regime of general Alejandro Lanusse and preceded the old Perón’s return. According to Hugo Moreno, "if October 17 , 1945 may be considered as the foundating act of peronism, by the General Strike and the presence of the masses imposing their will of support to Perón, the June 20, 1973 massacre marks the entrance on the scene of the late right-wing peronism." Hugo Moreno, ''op.cit.'', p.110 REFERENCES SEE ALSO
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