- Title: ARGENTINA: POLICE REVOLT IN CORDOBA -- ARGENTINA'S SECOND LARGEST CITY
- Date: 1st March 1974
- Summary: 1. SV Police in street 0.05 2. SV Zoom out from car to see GV armed police checking vehicles 0.13 3. SV Police on tail-board of vehicle 0.16 4. SVs Bomb damage to judge's house with crowds looking on (4 shots) 0.30 5. SV & SVs Crowds looking at burnt out car (3 shots) 0.42 6. GV Pan over closed shops (2 shots) 0.51 7. CU & SV Police with dogs on street corner (2 shots) 0.58 8. SVs & GVs Armed police on street corners (5 shots) 1.20 Initials SC/329 SC/349 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 16th March 1974 12:00
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- Location: CORDOBA ARGENTINA
- Country: Argentina
- Reuters ID: LVA9PSVL616XRJVTIO01QHBGCPDU
- Story Text: Ten thousand policemen seized control of Cordoba, Argentina's second largest city, on Wednesday (February 27). They staged their revolt after the left-wing provincial Governor, Ricardo Obregon Cano, attempted to sack the Police Chief, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Domingo Navarro. That night the police stormed Government House and seized Governor Obregon and eighty other provincial officials.
Left-wing trade union leaders called for a mass protest demonstration against the police action and on Thursday the first shots were fired at the Police. On Friday, two policemen and a woman were killed in an ambush in the student district and late in the day bitter fighting was reported following the appointment of a new governor in the place of Obregon Cano.
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