Argentina, 1971 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 11 May 1971, in the early period of the presidency of General Alejandro Agustin Lanusse in Argentina, during the military dictatorship known as the Argentine Revolution. Lanusse had taken power on 26 March 1971 through an internal military coup that removed General Roberto Marcelo Levingston, the second of three de facto presidents produced by the infighting between military factions since the 1966 overthrow of Arturo Illia. Lanusse governed amid intense political unrest, a fractured and faction-ridden officer corps, and a sharp rise in guerrilla activity by groups such as the People's Revolutionary Army, the Peronist Montoneros, and the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
To defuse the crisis he pursued the Gran Acuerdo Nacional, promising a return to elections. The May 1971 coding sits in this volatile period of guerrilla insurgency and continued military factional plotting against the unpopular Lanusse junta, before the August 1972 Trelew massacre and the 1973 transition.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
16005111971
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Lanusse held power and managed a transition to elections in 1973; his junta survived this period of unrest.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
Luttwak
The Guardian
Chicago Tribune
Washington Post
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