Jorge Manuel Osinde was an Argentine

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and orthodox peronist politician.

Life and career

Jorge Manuel Osinde graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1934. Osinde specialized in military intelligence, and in 1943 received the official

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of an Information Officer in the Argentine Army. 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 Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President of a military dictatorship, he was elected P ...

(then the president) 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 became de facto president and had Osinde incarcerated in Ushuaia, where he remained until being released by President Arturo Frondizi 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, protecting

Isabel Perón Isabel Martínez de Perón (, born María Estela Martínez Cartas, 4 February 1931), also known as Isabelita, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads ...

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 brought a Peronist government, Osinde was appointed Undersecretary of Sports, reporting to the Minister of Social Welfare José López Rega. 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 long guns; these hired guards were the perpetrators of the Ezeiza massacre. Historical consensus attributes partial or complete responsibility to Osinde for the massacre. In May 1974 Osinde was designated Argentina's

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to Paraguay by Perón; he remained in the position until the

1976 Argentine coup d'état The 1976 Argentine coup d'état was a right-wing coup d'état, coup that overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24 March 1976. A military junta was installed to replace her; this was headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videl ...

, after which he resigned.

References

* Ambassadors of Argentina to Paraguay Justicialist Party politicians Argentine military personnel Peronists {{Argentina-bio-stub