Revolución Libertadora
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The Revolución Libertadora as it named itself, was the civic-military dictatorship that ruled the Argentine Republic after overthrowing President Juan Domingo Perón, shutting down the National Congres
Civilian casualties after the air attack and massacre on Plaza de Mayo, June 1955
Gómez (left) and Lucero (right) on September 17, 1955. Two days before the establishment of the military junta.
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.
Revolución Libertadora
…Liberating Revolution) as it named itself, was the civic-military dictatorship that ruled the Argentine Republic after overthrowing President Juan Domingo Perón, shutting down the National Congress, removing members of the Supreme Court, as well as provincial, municipal, and university authorities, and placing…
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.