Claim: Ramón Lorenzo Falcón, an Argentine Army officer, politician, and Chief of the Argentine Federal Police was known for personally supervising repressive action against protests such as the May Day demonstration organized by FORA in 1909.
Evidence: Ramón Lorenzo Falcón (August 30, 1855 – November 14, 1909) was an Argentine Army officer, politician, and Chief of the Argentine Federal Police. Falcón became known for personally supervising repressive action against protests, and his sabre-wielding officers, as "cossacks." The most violent such confrontation up to then took place during a May Day demonstration organized in 1909 by FORA, an anarchist labor organization.