Qualla: Ezeiza Massacre https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/3/ezeiza-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Ezeiza Massacre https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre Ezeiza Massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. They came to celebrate, not to die. On 20 June 1973, by the police count, some three and a half million people streamed toward the highway near Ezeiza airport to greet Juan Perón, returning at last from eighteen years of exile in Spain. Families brought children. The young carried banners. Many had waited their whole adult lives for this moment. And then, from the speaker's platform itself, gunfire raked the crowd. The people who fell that day at the intersection called Puente 12 were not soldiers. They were celebrants, and the men who shot them belonged, nominally, to the same movement they had come to honor.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/3/ezeiza-massacre-wp/69y3-ezeiza-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Ezeiza Massacre: A Movement at War With Itself https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. To understand the killing, you have to understand the strange coalition Perón had built. From exile he had blessed both wings of his movement at once: young left-wing Peronists, including the Montoneros and the Peronist Youth, whose icons were closer to Che Guevara than to any ge...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/3/ezeiza-massacre-wp/69y3-ezeiza-massacre-a-movement-at-war-with-itself.mp3 0:06 2 full Ezeiza Massacre: Puente 12 https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The right wing did not wait to find out. The reviewing stand near Puente 12, where the airport access road meets the Camino de Cintura, had been organized by Lieutenant-Colonel Jorge Osinde and other figures of Peronism's hard right. From positions around that platform, armed men...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/3/ezeiza-massacre-wp/69y3-ezeiza-massacre-puente-12.mp3 0:06 3 full Ezeiza Massacre: The People in the Crowd https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. It is easy, fifty years on, to reduce that day to its factions, its acronyms, its conspiracies, and there were conspiracies enough; even the Italian neo-fascist Stefano Delle Chiaie was reportedly present, threads later pulled by investigators including the Spanish judge Baltasar...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/y/3/ezeiza-massacre-wp/69y3-ezeiza-massacre-the-people-in-the-crowd.mp3 0:06 4 full Ezeiza Massacre: What the Day Began https://qualla.com/ezeiza-massacre/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Historians treat the Ezeiza massacre as a hinge in Argentine history. If the great Peronist rally of October 1945 marked the movement's birth, one historian wrote, then 20 June 1973 marked the arrival of its violent right wing as a force that would shape everything after. Within ...

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