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| | Perón, Juan Domingo - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Perón, Juan Domingo, 1895-1974, president of Argentina (1946-55; 1973-74). |
 | | An army officer, Perón was the leader of a group of colonels that rose to prominence after the overthrow of the government of Ramón Castillo in 1943, a group which supported the fascist and Nazi movements in Italy and Germany. |
 | | In 1990, the Peronist candidate Carlos Saúl Menem won the presidential elections, demonstrating the continued appeal of Peronism in Argentina. |
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