Modern Era · South America · Politics
1976
Argentine junta takes power
March 24, 1976
A military coup in Buenos Aires overthrew Isabel Peron and began Argentina's Dirty War against left-wing opposition. Perhaps thirty thousand Argentines were disappeared, tortured, and dropped from planes into the Atlantic. Mothers of the disappeared marched every Thursday at the Plaza de Mayo in white headscarves. They outlasted the generals.
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Also in 1976 (4 other events on record)
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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