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sponding to the clamor of the people and with the patriotic assis-
tance of the army and navy, we have assumed control of the govern-
ment of the Nation.
Exponents of order and educated in the respect for the laws and for
institutions, we have witnessed in astonishment the process of disorder
that the country has suffered in the last few years.
We have waited serenely in the hope of a redeeming reaction, but
faced with the anguishing reality that places the country at the brink of
chaos and of ruin, we assume, before it, the responsibility of avoiding
its definitive collapse.
The administrative inertia and corruption, the absence of justice,
the anarchy in the universities, the improvisation and mismanage-
ment in economic and financial matters, the decadent favoritism as a
bureaucratic system, the politicking as the principal task of government,
the destructive and denigrating interference in the army and navy, the
international discredit brought about by arrogance in the contempt
for law and by the revealing attitudes and expressions of an aggressive
uncouthness, the exaltation of the subordinate, the abuse, the outrage,
the fraud, the systematic robbery, and the crime are scarcely a pallid
reflection of that which the country has had to support.
On appealing to the power to liberate the Nation of this ominous
regime, we have been inspired by one high and generous ideal. The facts
will demonstrate that we are guided by no other aim than the good of
the Nation.
Source:
Sarobe, José M.
Memorias sobre la revolución del 6 de septiembre
de 1930
(Buenos Aires: Ediciones Gure, 1957), pp. 250-251.
An airplane cut through the gray mist,
it was the triumphant dawn of the revolution.
And as of old, in the immortal year 1810,
the people, radiant with pride, filled the streets.
Long live our nation! And the glory of being free . . .
Proud to be Argentines
as we trace our new destiny.
(Collier 1986, 116)
