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1955
Military takes power in the Revolución Libertadora;
Perón lives in exile the next 18 years; Ernesto “Che”
Guevara meets Fidel Castro in Mexico
1956
General Pedro E. Aramburu and military junta begin
de-Peronization; Evita's body disappears for next 17
years; workers resist
1958
Peronists are prevented from participating in elections;
Arturo Frondizi is elected president
1960
S.I.A.M. produces first and only Argentine-engineered
automobile
1961
Guevara makes secret visit to Buenos Aires
1962
Military removes Frondizi from the presidency
1963
Peronistas
are again excluded from elections as Arturo
Illia wins as president
1966
Military coup replaces Illia as president with General
Juan Carlos Onganía; Police invade university cam-
puses during the Night of the Long Pencils
1967
Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia
1969
Cordobazo strike is held by workers and students;
Montonero guerrillas kidnap and execute Aramburu
1970
Luis Federico Leloir wins Nobel Prize in chemistry
1972
U.S. investments reach $1.8 billion; 23 foreign car com-
panies manufacture in Argentina
1973
Peronists win presidential elections; guerrillas are
released from jail; Perón returns to the presidency
despite violence between factions of his supporters
1974
Perón dies and his wife, Isabel, succeeds as president;
Montoneros declare war against government; Argentine
Anticommunist Alliance (Triple A) begins counterter-
rorist activities; Evita's body is returned
1976
Inflation reaches 600 percent; military coup deposes
Isabel Perón as president;
patota
squads begin to elimi-
nate leftist “suspects”
1977
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo begin first protests
against military terror
1978
Argentina hosts World Cup; home team wins
1979
Workers organize general strike to protest military
government
1982
Militarygovernment invadesMalvinas(FalklandIslands);
British expeditionary force defeats Argentina; Nobel
