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...last month, former Dictator Juan Peron, exiled in the Dominican Republic, published what he said was a pre-election pact between himself and Frondizi. Thus provoked, the plotters moved up the date. At the signal-to be given by Rear Admiral Arturo Rial-the traditionally anti-Peronist Córdoba garrison would rise, and warships from the Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano bases would steam along the River Plate and blockade Buenos Aires. It was roughly the same plan that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot...
With the approach of the new school term a fortnight ago, both sides decided to battle the issue out. Fiery, fight-happy students served as troops; they fought for the occupation of school buildings in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Rosario, Córdoba and other cities. Winning forces locked themselves inside. Other students, 6,000 strong, clashed and rioted in front of the presidential palace, using tear-gas bombs made by chemistry students as weapons. The weight of numbers favored the anticlericals. At length Aramburu accepted Dell'Oro's resignation (offered by telephone from Lima, where Dell...
Happy Birthday." The strongman fell with dramatic suddenness. As the fateful week opened, the government propaganda machine was still repetitiously insisting that the rebellion was about to collapse, that loyalist troops had retaken the rebel stronghold of Córdoba. But Peron's government, not the rebellion, was about to collapse...
...than the June 16 rebellion, snuffed out in six hours by inner-circle generals guarding their vested interests in the Perón regime. But this time rebel leaders showed spectacular dime-novel pluck and luck. While Generals Lonardi and Videla Balaguer were holding Córdoba, Vice Admiral Isaac Rojas daringly boarded the navy's flagship cruiser, locked the Peronista fleet commander in his cabin, invited the navy to join the rebellion. "I am not going to deceive anybody," messaged Rojas. "We are going to make a revolution, and they may kill us all. Anybody who does...
...first government communiqué boasted that "the subversive movement is under control," and rebel units "are being dominated." Such claims were absurdly premature. In Córdoba the besieged police headquarters fell to rebel attackers after a half-hour artillery bombardment. From the Puerto Belgrano naval base, 400 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, naval units marched into the neighboring grain port...