The Argentine Revolution is the self-styled name of the civil-military dictatorship that overthrew the constitutional president Arturo Illia through a coup d'état on June 28, 1966, and ruled the count
The Night of the Long Batons, one of the most notorious episodes of the "Argentine Revolution", was an attack by the dictatorship (using police violence) against University of Buenos Aires' professors, teachers, students and faculty members, which led both to international condemnation of the dictatorship and a massive migration of Argentine intellectuals, professionals and scholars abroad.
Images of the Cordobazo, May–June 1969
La Liberté guidant le peuple Eugène Delacroix Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 129 après restauration 2024
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the far south of South America. It covers an area of 2,780,085 km2, making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th
Argentine Revolution
…name of the civil-military dictatorship that overthrew the constitutional president Arturo Illia through a coup d'état on June 28, 1966, and ruled the country until May 25, 1973. The dictatorship did not present itself as a "provisional government" (as all the previous coups had done in Argentina), but rather…
The Cave of the Hands in Santa Cruz province
The surrender of Beresford to Santiago de Liniers during the British invasions of the Río de la Plata
General José de San Martín, Libertador of Argentina, Chile and Peru
People gathered in front of the Buenos Aires Cabildo during the May Revolution