1976 Argentine coup d'état
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The 1976 Argentine coup d'état overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24 March 1976. While it had some right-wing elements, such as its emphasis on order and security, it was not a traditional right-wing coup and did not adhere to a specific ideology. [citation needed] A military junta was installed to replace her; this was headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera and Brigadier-General[4] Orlando Ramón Agosti. The political process initiated on 24 March 1976 took the official name of "National Reorganization Process", and the junta, although not with its original members, remained in power until the return to the democratic process on 10 December 1983. The coup was planned and executed within the framework of the Condor Plan, a clandestine system of repressive coordination between Latin American countries promoted by the United States, as part of the national security doctrine, which generalized dictatorships in Latin America in order to maintain the control over those countries during the Cold War.
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1976 Argentine coup d'état | |||||||
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Part of the Operation Condor / the Dirty War and the Cold War | |||||||
Jorge Rafael Videla swearing in as President on 29 March 1976 | |||||||
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Supported by: United States[1][2][3] | |||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Isabel Perón | Jorge Videla |
The military coup had been planned since October 1975; the Perón government learned of the preparations two months before its execution. Henry Kissinger met several times with Argentine Armed Forces leaders after the coup, urging them to destroy their opponents quickly before outcry over human rights abuses grew in the United States.[5][2][3]
Given the systematic persecution of a social minority, the period has been classified as a genocidal process.[6][7][8] This has been established in the sentences of the trials of the perpetrators for crimes against humanity.[9][10][11]