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laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel leads huge antimilitary
demonstration
The Age of Neoliberalism
1983
Inflation rises to 343 percent; international debt reaches
$45 billion; Raúl Alfonsín of the Radical Party wins
presidential election
1984
NuncaMás
is published; prosecution of military officers
for human rights abuses begins; César Milstein wins
Nobel Prize in medicine
1886
Plan Austral reduces inflation to 80 percent
1887
Carapintada commando troops rebel for first time
1989
Left-wing guerrillas attack an army base; inflation rises
to 3,000 percent; IMF riots break out; Carlos Saúl
Menem of the Peronist Party wins election; body of
Rosas is repatriated; privatization begins
1990
Final Carapintada rebellion precedes visit of President
George H. W. Bush; Convertibility Plan pegs the peso to
the dollar
1991
Mercosur is formed by Argentina and three neighbors;
news stories appear concerning high-level corruption
1994
Car bomb destroys Jewish community center in Buenos
Aires and kills 86 people
1995
Inflation declines to 3 percent; Menem is reelected for
second presidential term
1997
Official unemployment rate reaches 17 percent; 40,000
unemployed workers join protest march
1999
Economic recession commences; Radical election vic-
tory puts Fernando de la Rúa in the presidency
2001
Recession completes third year; international debt
reaches $132 billion; second IMF riots occur; de la
Rúa resigns; after three other interim presidents come
and go during a two-week period, Eduardo Duhalde, a
Peronist, becomes interim president
2002
Peso is severed from dollar and falls in value by 40
percent
2003
Néstor Kirchner assumes the presidency after winning
a runoff election from which Carlos Menem dropped
out; 40 former military officers are held for alleged
