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José Ignacio Rucci
José Ignacio Rucci (5 March 1924 – 25 September 1973) was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) in 1970. Close to the Argentine president Juan Perón, and a chief representative of the "syndical bureaucracy" (the trade-union movement's right wing); he was assassinated in 1973. Trade unionist career The son of modest Italian immigrants, he was born in Alcorta, Santa Fe Province, and emigrated to Buenos Aires as a young man to find work. He became a steelworker in the Ballester-Molina weapons' factory. There, he met Hilario Salvo, leader of the recently founded ''Unión Obrera Metalúrgica'' (UOM) steelworkers' union.José Ignacio Rucci, El precio de la lealtad review of Luís Fernando Beraza's biography of Rucci (Vergara, 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcorta
Alcorta is a town (''comuna'') in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It has 7,450 inhabitants, according to the census, and lies in the south of the province, on National Route 178, south-southwest of Rosario and south of the provincial capital Santa Fe. Alcorta was founded in 1892 by Juan Bernardo Iturraspe and is best known as the starting point of the first large-scale agrarian strike in the history of Argentina, called the ''Grito de Alcorta'', which began on 25 June 1912 and subsequently gave rise to the foundation of the Argentine Agrarian Federation Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish language, Spanish (Grammatical gender, masculine) or (Grammatical gender, feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be resident .... Union leader José Ignacio Rucci was born in Alcorta. References * * Populated places in Santa Fe Province {{SantaFeAR-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Nicolás De Los Arroyos
San Nicolás de los Arroyos (usually shortened to ''San Nicolás'') is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Rosario. It has about 133,000 inhabitants (). It is the administrative seat of the '' partido'' of the same name. It is sometimes called ''Ciudad de María'' (City of Mary) due to a series of Marian apparitions that led to the erection of the Sanctuary in honor of Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás that began during the 1980s and were approved by Bishop Cardelli of the diocese as "worthy of belief" in 2016. History San Nicolás de los Arroyos was founded on 14 April 1748 by Rafael de Aguiar, who gave it its name to honour Saint Nicholas of Bari, now patron of the city. The closeness to the border between Buenos Aires and two other large provinces made the city a natural stage for the struggle between federalist and Unitarians forces in mid-19th century. The agreement between thirteen provinces on 31 May 1852 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
