Rise of Peron and Argentine Military Politics
Argentina's wartime neutrality had enriched the country and, after the 1943 military coup, fostered an import-substitution boom that created a large new urban working class, the descamisados who became the base of Peronism. As Labour Secretary, Juan Domingo Peron forged a coalition of organised labour and the new industrial bourgeoisie against the landed oligarchy and the left. When rival officers arrested him in October 1945, a mass mobilisation of workers on 17 October forced his release and confirmed him as the dominant figure of Argentine politics. The military's ambivalence toward Peronism established the pattern of recurrent coups that would mark the next four decades of Argentine history. Structurally this is a moment of military-political seizure within the armed forces and the state, the dominant factional crisis of the Argentine polity in 1945.
- Year: 1945 CE
- Category: Political
