1943 Argentine Revolution

1943 Argentine Revolution

A newspaper announcing the beginning of the coup.
Date	4 June 1943
Location	Argentina
Also known as	Revolution of '43
Outcome	End of the Infamous Decade Military dictatorship established

The 1943 Argentine Revolution (also known as the 1943 Argentine coup d'état, the June Revolution or the Revolution of '43) was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president before succeeding to the presidency in 1942^[1] as part of the period known as the Infamous Decade. The coup d'état was launched by the lodge of the "United Officer Groups", a secret military organization of nationalist nature. Although its soldiers shared different views of nationalism: there were Catholic nationalists, Radicals, military with a more pragmatic approach, and even fascists. The military was opposed to Governor Robustiano Patrón Costas, Castillo's hand-picked successor, a major landowner in Salta Province and a primary stockholder in the sugar industry. The only serious resistance to the military coup came from the Argentine Navy, which confronted the advancing army columns at the Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics.

It was the military government that "incubated" Peronism. The coup of June 4, 1943, is considered by some historians as the true date of the birth of the movement created by Juan Perón. Perón in 1946 chose June 4 to take office to honor the 1943 coup, which established the only dictatorship that began and ended on the same date.^[2]