Juan Perón
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Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who was the 29th and 40th president of Argentina, serving from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and from 1973 until his death in 1974.
Official portrait, 1948
Lt. Perón (left) and General José Uriburu (middle), with whose right-wing coup in 1930 he collaborated. Perón backed the more moderate General Agustín Justo, however.
Perón in 1940
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and his benefactor, Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.
1943 Argentine Revolution
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The 1943 Argentine Revolution was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president before succeeding to the p
A newspaper announcing the beginning of the coup.
Generals Arturo Rawson and Pedro Pablo Ramírez greet a crowd at Plaza de Mayo on the day of the coup.
Hotel Jousten on Corrientes Avenue in Buenos Aires. The group of conspirators known as the "Jousten Generals" gathered here.
General Pedro Pablo Ramírez swearing into office on 7 June 1943. Ramirez was president during the first eight months of the Revolution of '43.