Eduardo Lonardi

Eduardo Lonardi ( born September 15, 1896 in the province of Entre Ríos, † March 22, 1956 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine non-party politicians and the military.

Career

1936 the military attaché in Santiago de Chile, Juan Perón, the mobilization plan for northern Chile was offered. Peron was treated as a military attaché to Rome. He was succeeded by Eduardo Lonardi. To him the accusation of espionage was made. The Argentine ambassador in Santiago, Frederico Máximo Quintana remained idle. Arturo Alessandri was Eduardo Lonardi 24 hours to leave Chile and he was in Chile persona non grata. After an attempted coup in 1951 Brigadier General Lonardi was demoted and forced into retirement. Lonardi became the followers of Monsignor Gustavo Juan Franceschi (28 July 1881 † July 11, 1957 ), an orthodox Catholic, and maintained relations with the Partido Demócrata Cristiano. In his view, to Argentina was in the hands of liberals, Freemasons and Marxists.

From 1949 to 1968, the Argentine artillery school was in Córdoba. On September 15, 1955 Lonardi came by bus from Buenos Aires in the artillery school. He wore a uniform in cross-section of service. Around him other conspirators, including his son Luis Ernesto Lonardi collected. At the police station the artillery school, he submitted a command of Colonel Ramón Eduardo Molina and asked for a weapon. He was handed a Colt M1911. The group of conspirators went to the apartment of the garrison commander Juan Bautista Turconi. Turconi opened and walked Lonardi ahead in his apartment. Lonardi fired a shot and injured Turconi the ear. As a result, Lonardi was granted polite and the precedence in the office of president, which he actually held 23 September to 13 November 1955. After his fall, he was military attaché in Washington, DC, he returned to Buenos Aires, where he died of cancer.