Argentina, 1976 — military coup
Event Summary
On 24 March 1976 a military coup overthrew President Isabel Perón and installed a junta; Jorge Rafael Videla served as president from 1976 to 1981. His government was responsible for grave human rights abuses during Argentina's "Dirty War," during which, by widely cited estimates, as many as 30,000 citizens were killed or "disappeared.
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Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
How It Unfolded
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- Led by
- Military
- How long it took
- Under a day — resolved within 24 hours
- Detention or expulsion of the incumbent leader
- Declaration of martial law or curfew
- Seizure of broadcasters / coup declaration on state media
- Mass arrests of officials, officers, or opponents
Cross-Reference
Datasets agree. At least two of the three reference datasets we check against carry this event, and none of them disagrees about its date or its result.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
16003241976- Albrecht/Koehler/Schutz (CAM) id
CAM-160-1976-03-24
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Isabel Perón, President of Argentina (overthrown).
Baseline coding: Incumbent executive removed from power. Recorded leader fate: deposed; arrested or jailed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
CSP
Luttwak
Powell and Thyne
Wikipedia
New York Times
Chicago Tribune
This is the citation trail carried by the baseline dataset, grouped by outlet and rejoined from the line-wrapped original. Coup Atlas has not independently re-checked every document; read the original before citing a specific claim. URLs the import damaged beyond safe repair are shown as plain text and listed in citations-report.md. How this list is built →