Jorge Manuel Osinde was an Argentine

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and orthodox peronist politician.

Life and career

Jorge Manuel Osinde graduated from the

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in 1934. Osinde specialized in

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, and in 1943 received the official

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of an Information Officer in the

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. He served in the Information Service of the army until 1947, when he was appointed by

Juan Perón Juan Domingo Perón (, , ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine military officer and Statesman (politician), statesman who served as the History of Argentina (1946-1955), 29th president of Argentina from 1946 to Revolución Libertad ...

(then the

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) to be the head of Federal Coordination. In 1954, he was assigned to the Army Information Service, where he reported directly to Perón. After Perón was deposed in a coup in 1955,

Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Silveti (May 21, 1903 – June 1, 1970) was an Argentine Army general and the ''de facto'' President of Argentina from 1955 to 1958. He was a major figure behind the ''Revolución Libertadora'', the military coup against J ...

became de facto president and had Osinde incarcerated in

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, where he remained until being released by President

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in 1958. Subsequently, Perón (who was in

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at the time) assigned Osinde a variety of tasks, such as searching for the body of

Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón (; ; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita (), was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 1946 until ...

, protecting

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when she traveled to Argentina in 1964, and leading a failed attempt to return Perón himself to Argentina the same year. After the

March 1973 Argentine general election The first Argentine general election of 1973 was held on 11 March. Voters chose both the President and their legislators. Background The 1966 coup d'état against the moderate President Arturo Illia was carried out largely as a reaction to ...

brought a Peronist government, Osinde was appointed

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of Sports, reporting to the Minister of Social Welfare

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. On June 20, 1973, he was in charge of security at an event near the Aeropuerto de Ezeiza, organized to celebrate the return of Perón to Argentina after 18 years in exile. Osinde hired some 300 people to provide security, some of whom were armed with

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s; these hired guards were the perpetrators of the

Ezeiza massacre The Ezeiza massacre () took place on June 20, 1973, at Puente 12, the intersection of General Ricchieri freeway (the Ezeiza Airport access) and Camino de Cintura (provincial route 4), some 10 km from Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires ...

. Historical consensus attributes partial or complete responsibility to Osinde for the massacre. In May 1974 Osinde was designated Argentina's

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by Perón; he remained in the position until the

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, after which he resigned.

References

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