#golpe de estado
Depois que minha esposa começou a transar com aquele jovem e simpático sargento do exército, notei um súbito interesse dela por estampas camufladas. Ainda bem que a simpatia dela pela caserna não vai além da cama: intervenção militar, só se for entre as pernas da minha amada!
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On this day, 3 May 1917, Spanish civil war fighter Maria Perez Lacruz was born in Teruel, Spain. Working as a cleaner and selling vegetables, Maria became an anarchist, and with the start of the civil war and revolution joined the Iron Column militia as a nurse.
Nicknamed “La Jabalina”, she took part in the fight against the nationalist forces of general Francisco Franco until being shot in battle, leading to her being hospitalised for four months. After her recovery she worked in an arms factory then a steelworks.
Shortly after Franco’s victory La Jabalina, who was now pregnant, was arrested and interrogated about her Iron Column comrades, after which her head was shaved and she was paraded through the streets. She was then charged with a litany of crimes, most of which were committed while she was in hospital, and some of which were completely bogus, like the supposed murder of a Bolivian consul in Valencia who did not exist. La Jabalina was beaten and tortured repeatedly during three years of imprisonment but never admitted anything. Despite this, and despite the fact that people like the director of the hospital where she had been testifying in her defence, she was convicted and executed.
It is believed she gave birth in prison, but the fate of her baby is unknown. Most likely it was given up for adoption to catholic or fascist parents.
Today a public square is named after her, and she has been the subject of two books and a play. Learn more about the civil war in our podcast episodes 39-40: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1978433155675158/?type=3
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Story Behind the 1976 Argentine Coup d'etat: The democratically elected government of Argentina headed by Isabel Martínez de Perón was successfully overthrown by a military putsch in March 1976.
Eight days before the coup, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, Chief of the Argentine Navy and a major coup plotter, turned to Ambassador Robert Hill, U.S. ambassador to Argentina, for help in getting a recommendation for an American public relations firm that would manage the Argentine coup leaders’ propaganda campaign for the coup and for the crackdown against democracy and human rights activists that was to follow. Ambassador Hill stated that the United States government cannot interfere in such affairs and provided Admiral Massera with a list of reputable public relations firms maintained by the Embassy. Also, more than two months before the coup, senior coup plotters consulted with American officials in Argentina about the coup, and Ambassador Hill reported to Washington that the military coup plotters were “aware of the problem” that their killings might cause and “are already focusing on ways to avoid letting human rights issues become an irritant in U.S.-Argentine relations” by being pro-active with the preparation of the public relations operation.
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