🇦🇷 Argentina: A Century of Collapse | Part II What you’re seeing:
Perón returns after eighteen years in exile, but Argentina’s political violence deepens. A military dictatorship follows, democracy returns, and money begins to lose its meaning. Part II follows Perón’s exile and return, the Ezeiza massacre, the 1976 coup, los desaparecidos, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, the 1978 World Cup, the Malvinas/Falklands War, and the beginning of hyperinflation. Why did this happen?
Perón built an enduring mass movement, but his rule was also marked by concentrated power, political repression, state patronage, and corruption. After his removal, military and civilian governments repeatedly failed to establish lasting authority. His return did not resolve the conflict. At Ezeiza, right-wing Peronists opened fire on left-wing Peronists. Perón died in 1974, leaving Isabel to govern a country sliding into violence. The 1976 junta used systematic abduction, torture, and disappearance to eliminat...