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Demonstrators cheered the arrival of troops at the National Congress during the
coup d'état of September 1930.
(Archivo General de la Nación)
Once in power, however, the military government took on a program
of its own. The generals announced that they had saved the nation.
Uriburu's audacity and success permitted him to rule the country
according to his hard-line philosophy for the following two years.
No one perceived it at the time, but this coup marked the end of the
liberal age and the tentative beginning of another in which the state
would become more interventionist. Politics also were to become less
stable, and for the remainder of the 20th century, more generals (14)
than civilians (11) would serve as head of state.
