Argentina’s new political party, Union del Pueblo Argentino, today harshly criticized a judge who found a group of anti-Semitic youths, belonging to the Tacuare movement, not guilty. The youths had been apprehended after a fight at a summer resort at Santa Fe, in which some Jewish youngsters had been beaten up.
“It is difficult to understand,” the statement said, “how in the dramatic moments through which the country is passing, it is possible that a totalitarian and anti-Semitic organization could act without punishment, carrying on its subversive activities which denote regressive mentalities and are reminiscent of those which, 30 years ago, were engaged in by the founders of the Third Reich in Germany.”
Union del Pueblo Argentino is currently backing the former President, Gen. Pedro Aramburu, for election to the presidency of Argentina in the next general elections.
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