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240 9 M . Acosta B. De Astrada C a s t a ñ ó n C o r r a l e s F. Pizarro C u l p i n a Ferre Itaqui Av. Lafuente José M artí P e d e r n e r a Pergamino Portela Av. Cnel. Roca A v . S a n P e d r i t o A v . 2 7 d e f e b r e r o R I A C H U E L O Av. San Pedrito T a b a r é A v . V a r e l a PARQUE J. A. ROCA Est. Villa Soldati 186 FCGMB LOCATION: BETWEEN AV. SAN PEDRITO AND PERGAMINO TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 76, 91, 115. VILLA SOLDATI A street in the neighborhood of Villa Soldati was named “Julio Troxler” in memory of this Peronist political activist murdered by the Triple A* (Argentine Anticommunist Alliance) . In October 1997 , an ordinance passed by what was then the Deliberative Council of the City of Buenos Aires made this tribute possible (see “Coordinaci ón Federal, ” p . 17) . Troxler’s life was shaped by what was known as the Peronist Resistance * (Resistencia Peronista) . On June 16, 1955, the Navy bombed the Plaza de Mayo (see p . 3) and the Casa Rosada with the aim of overthrowing president Juan Domingo Perón, who was in his second term of office (see “Major Alberte Gardens, ” p . 238) . Three months later , another military uprising succeeded in removing Perón from power and pushing him into exile . Its leaders called their revolt a “Liberating Revolution” (Revolución Libertadora ) . The new military government banned Peronism and imprisoned or exiled its leading activists (see “Former Prison Unit 1 in Caseros, ” p . 134) . It became a crime even to mention Juan Domingo Perón’s name, and newspapers took to referring to him as “the fugitive tyrant . ” Yet this repression backfired by making Peronism more cohesive and fostering forms of resistance, including even an attempted insurrection . The military turned away from state direction of the economy in favor of free market policies, including the privatization of nationalized industries and banks, and the dismantling of regional economies . The Aramburu dictatorship began to show signs of weakness the following year, as its economic policies promoted both military and civilian reaction . Peronist supporters whose lives had been transformed by the social policies enacted during Perón’s two terms in office called on the young to fight and resist the regime . 186 . JulioTroxler Street 241 Troxler dropped out of the Juan Vucetich Police School after the September 1955 coup to join the Peronist Resistance . He worked alongside union leaders Sebasti án Borro and Andrés Framini, and also came into contact with the original Peronist Youth Movement* (JP or Juventud Peronista) groups led by figures such as Gustavo Rearte, Envar El Kadri and Felipe Vallese . First arrested in October 1955, he fought alongside his brothers in the failed insurrection of June 1956 . A group of loyal Peronist officers and non-commissioned officers had rejected the new military government as unconstitutional . On June 9, 1956, Generals Valle and Tanco led a failed military and civilian uprising . Though not officially endorsed by Perón, the insurrection drew on popular discontent, the support of Peronist activists, and the participation of military officers displaced by “la Libertadora ” (short for the Liberating Revolution) . The military government was aware of the planned insurrection but decided not to act until the plans were in motion . The revolutionary proclamation written by Valle and Tanco was due to be read in public around midnight on June 9, though hundreds of union leaders and Peronist sympathizers were arrested the night before to undermine the uprising’s base of support . The military defeated the insurrection, quickly putting down a series of attempted uprisings in Campo de Mayo, Regiment 2 in Palermo, the Army School of Mechanics, Regiment 7 in the city of La Plata, and in the provincial towns of Santa Rosa (La Pampa), Rosario and Rafaela (Santa Fe), and Viedma (Río Negro) . Most of the rebel leaders were captured . Julio Troxler was arrested along with other members of the insurrection as they listened for the radio broadcast of the proclamation in Florida, a suburb north of Buenos Aires . These arrests took place just before midnight on June 9 . The men were transferred to the police station in the Regional Unit of San Martín, another suburban municipality . Aramburu and Rojas signed a martial law* decree that went...

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