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Revolución Libertadora (1955)

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Buenos Aires · Córdoba · Argentina

Estimated casualties

300 – 4.0Kestimated dead

Over 300 killed in the June 1955 Plaza de Mayo bombing alone; total coup-related deaths uncertain.

SOURCEscholarly

The September 1955 civic-military coup that overthrew Argentine President Juan Perón, preceded by the June 1955 bombing of Plaza de Mayo that killed over 300 civilians. It installed a military dictatorship and banned Peronism for years.

Belligerents2

Argentine government (Perón loyalists)
Anti-Peronist military rebels

Sources

Wikipedia: Revolución Libertadora
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Revolución Libertadora (1955) (1955). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/revolucion-libertadora-1955 · Sources & methodology