Argentine Revolution

1966 Argentine coup d'état
Part of the Cold War

At the top, the commanders of the Revolutionary Junta, and below, Generals Juan Carlos Onganía, Roberto Marcelo Levingston, and Alejandro Lanusse, the three successive dictators of the Argentine Revolution who de facto held the office of President of the Argentine Nation.
Date28 June 1966
Location
Casa Rosada, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Result Overthrow of the government of Arturo Umberto Illia. Suspension of the liberal democracy and establishment of military dictatorship.
Belligerents
Argentine Armed Forces rebels

Government of Argentina

Commanders and leaders
Arturo Umberto Illia

The Argentine Revolution (Spanish: Revolución Argentina) 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 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 sought to establish itself as a new permanent dictatorial system later associated with the concept of the bureaucratic-authoritarian State.