Infamous Decade
Argentine Republic República Argentina (Spanish) | |||||||||
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| 1930–1943 | |||||||||
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| Anthem: Himno Nacional Argentino ("Argentine National Anthem") | |||||||||
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| Capital | Buenos Aires | ||||||||
| Common languages | Spanish, Italian dialects (minority) | ||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholicism | ||||||||
| Government | Federal presidential republic under an authoritarian government | ||||||||
| President | |||||||||
• 1930-1932 | José Félix Uriburu | ||||||||
• 1932-1938 | Agustín Pedro Justo | ||||||||
• 1938-1940 | Roberto Marcelino Ortiz | ||||||||
• 1940-1942 | Ramón Castillo | ||||||||
| Historical era | |||||||||
• Established (1930 Argentine coup d'état) | 6 September 1930 | ||||||||
| 1 May, 1933 | |||||||||
• Assassination of Enzo Bordabehere | 23 July, 1935 | ||||||||
• Disestablished (1943 Argentine Revolution) | 4 June 1943 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1940 census | 13,320,641 | ||||||||
| GDP (PPP) | estimate | ||||||||
• Total | $99.17 billion (1943) ; (expressed in international-$ at 2011 prices) | ||||||||
| Currency | Argentine peso (moneda nacional) | ||||||||
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The Infamous Decade (Spanish: Década Infame) was a period in Argentine history that began with the 1930 coup d'état against President Hipólito Yrigoyen. This decade was marked on one hand by significant rural exodus, with many small rural landowners ruined by the Great Depression, which in turn pushed the country towards import substitution industrialization, and on the other hand, conservative governments stayed in power perpetually by electoral fraud. The poor results of economic policies and popular discontent led to another coup in 1943, the Revolution of 1943, by the Grupo de Oficiales Unidos (GOU), a nationalist faction of the Armed Forces, which triggered the rise to power of Juan Perón.