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Reasons for Opposition to Peron - Coggle Diagram
Reasons for Opposition to Peron
Opposition to Bureaucracy
Government bureacracy grew during Peron's timei in power
Used his authority over officials appointment to buy and maintain political support
Produced a costly and bloated administration
Gave opponents an easy target to attack
Worked as a broad strategy to stay in power
Opposition from workers
Peron used the workers representative body(CGT) to suppress them
Top officials within it were Peronist appointees
Worker-state or Worker-employee settlements in effect, were dictated by government bureaucrats
Government bureaucrats declared strikes were forbidden
Rank and file members ignored their leaders and took the streets to protest this
Two Large demonstrations
Sugar workers strike -1949
Transport Workers strike - 1951
Both broken up by army and police with great brutality
Assisted by Peronists called the National Liberation Alliance (NLA), roamed streets and assaulted strikers and their families
Opposition from the upper class
Class division was engrained in Argentinian society
Upper classes regarded those lower than them with contempt
Peron's introduction of policies that appealed to the intrest of the lower middle class left resenment among their employers
Peron's challenge to the class division earned him bitterness from the priveleged
they didnt believe his claim of seeking a balanced society
Saw worker reforms as a threat to their status
Ernesto Sammartino, leader of the radical civil group dismissed Peron supporters as zoo animals
Radical civil group were a businessman men made conservative group in opposition to peron
Ernesto fled the country due to his opposition to Peron's policies possibly leading to an arrest
Opposition from the catholic church
Churchmen were unhappy with Peronist Propaganda urging people to idolize their leader
Peron's reputation as a womanizer also angered the clergy
Further angered in 1954 by government measures legalizing divorce and prostitutions
Peron was also angered by the churches refusal of canonization of Eva after her death in 1953
Peron tried to ban the Christian Democratic Party that the church had helped found
this led to Peron's government and the church trading insults
Catholic Cclergy used pastoral letters to denounce Peron
Religious Procession turned into Anti-Peron demonstrations
Peronists responded with mass gathering denouncing the Catholic Church for their inference in politics
Crisis point reached when Peron expelled from the country a bishop and two priests for treasonable opposition
Pope Pius XII formally excommunicated Peron
While speaking at a Peronist Rally in Plaza de Mayo, a air force squadron flew over and bombed the crowd, killing over 350
This coup failed but set in motion a series of military challenged to Peron's authority
The Church were able to use its influence on people in Argentina in General, especially the army which worried Peron