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Aelo's concluding chapters reconstruct the fall of Mercante as governor and provide a somewhat less detailed description of party and state elites during Carlos Aloe's administration of the provincial government from mid-1952 to the 1955 coup d'etat. The fall of Mercantism is conceived of as the result of the clashes between factions. Although such interpretation is not in direct conflict with traditional ones that blame the dispute with Eva Peron for Domingo Mercante's fall from grace, Aelo sets out the differences between Mercantist political practices and the subsequent attempts to create a Peronism based on practices associated with verticalism ("peronismo vertical).