1976 Argentine coup d'état

1976 Argentine coup d'état
	Part of the Cold War in South America and the Dirty War
	; Jorge Rafael Videla swearing in as president on 29 March 1976
Date	24 March 1976
Location	Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires
Result	Overthrow of Isabel Perón. Jorge Rafael Videla becomes President of Argentina.
Belligerents
Argentine Government Justicialist Party; ;	Argentine Armed Forces; Army; Navy; Air Force; ;
Commanders and leaders
Isabel Perón	Jorge Rafael Videla

A coup d'état overthrew Isabel Perón as President of Argentina on 24 March 1976. A military junta was installed to replace her; this was headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, and Brigadier-General Orlando Ramón Agosti. The political process initiated on 24 March 1976 took the official name of "National Reorganization Process", and different juntas remained in power until the return to democracy on 10 December 1983.

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.

Given the systematic persecution of a social minority, the period has been claimed by some as a ‘genocidal process’. They point to the sentences of the trials of the perpetrators for crimes against humanity.