Look, Perón was a social democrat, and what's social democracy? The moderate wing of fascism. And boy did he liked Mussolini.

But in a context of feudal lords and "robber barons", this social democrat fash dipshit was like Jesus reincarnated for the masses, thus his ex-friends bombed him out of the country (gave him safe conduit to Franco Spain anyways) and prohibited anyone from ever mentioning Perón ever again, banned the party, and immediately got the country indebted to the US.

So, Perón will always be our FDR.

But again, from the 50's to the 70's, a big part of his backers were fascists, who wanted this country to not be a mere agricultural colony, but absolutely fascists nonetheless.

That flavor of fascist died a long time ago here. Right when finance capitalists won against industrial capitalists.

Now, who were Perón's biggest opposition? Mainly feudal shitstains and the few robber barons that weren't backing him, and of course, libs horrified at poor people learning how to read or having paid vacations.

But none of them were persecuted in any real way, cuz they were rich. The people who actually was persecuted were the cool anticapitalist leftists who didn't tow the line, the ones doing the real menace to capital, which this Perón guy was trying to neuter.

Just a fun note: After the coup closely following the Plaza de Mayo bombardment coup, Perón left but as successor of the party he named John William Cook, a communist who participated in the Cuban revolution. A similar thing an homolog social democrat from Mexico did, but John Cook never got to be president here.

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_William_Cooke