Pedro Eugenio Aramburu
Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Cilveti (born May 21, 1903 in Río Cuarto , Province of Cordoba , † May 31 or June 1, 1970 in Timote , Province of Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine general and politician .
biography
Aramburu joined the Argentine army and rose to general during his military career . As such, he became one of the leading critics of President Juan Perón's government . Carried by a group of disappointed army officers, he was one of the initiators of the successful military coup of September 21, 1955, which was later referred to as the "Liberating Revolution". After Perón's flight into exile , a military junta under José Domingo Molina Gómez took over power for two days, followed by Eduardo Lonardi as provisional president.
On November 13, 1955, Aramburu finally became president himself . Although he announced that he would only serve as president temporarily, he immediately launched a campaign to strictly "depersonalize" Argentina. In the state-controlled media it came to denouncing and denigrating the former President and the First Lady Eva Perón and to order the destruction of their portraits and monuments. At the same time, the Peronist Party (Partido Justicialista) was banned and members of the previous government were arrested. After almost two years in office, he finally announced that free elections would be held on February 23, 1958. He himself renounced a candidacy in the presidential elections and handed over the powers to the elected President Arturo Frondizi on May 1, 1958 . He then left the army.
In 1963 he ran unsuccessfully as a presidential candidate against Arturo Umberto Illia .
On May 29, 1970, he was kidnapped by a radical Peronist group and murdered a few days later by this group, presumably for his part in the execution of 27 Peronist leaders after an unsuccessful coup in 1956 . His mutilated body was discovered on July 16. The Bahía Aramburu , a bay in the Antarctic, is named after him.
literature
- Rodolfo Walsh : The Massacre of San Martín , translated and provided with an afterword by Erich Hackl ; Rotpunktverlag , Zurich 2009 ISBN 978-3-85869-413-3 . Original Spanish title: Operación Massacre , Buenos Aires 1957
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine from May 29, 2010, section Das Datum
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Eduardo Lonardi |
President of Argentina 1955 - 1958 |
Arturo Frondizi |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aramburu, Pedro Eugenio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aramburu Cilveti, Pedro Eugenio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine officer and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 21, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Río Cuarto , Province of Cordoba |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 31, 1970 or June 1, 1970 |
| Place of death | Timote , Buenos Aires Province |