Tragedy. Farce. Perón.

Fight at the Perón re-reburial

As if to provide a perfect object lesson of Karl Marx's (slightly edited) quote, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce," former President Juan Domingo Perón's latest return erupted in fisticuffs and a few wild gunshots. At his most recent reburial at his former weekend retreat in the Buenos Aires suburb of San Vicente, opposing bands of Peronists clashed, beat each other with bats (above) and one shot off a few bullets, in a pathetic, skim milk remake of the massacre that came to pass when Perón returned to Argentine after 18 years of exile in 1973. Not surprisingly, President Kirchner decided not to attend.

So. Very. Sad.