The 1976 Coup: Argentina's Dirty War Begins

On March 24, 1976, Argentina's military overthrew President Isabel Perón, launching a dictatorship that would disappear tens of thousands. This episode walks through the coup itself—the helicopters on the Casa Rosada, the junta's first communiqué—and the state terror that followed: the secret detention centers, the vuelos de la muerte, the stolen babies of the ESMA. We trace how the coup grew out of the chaos of Isabel's presidency, the role of the AAA death squads, and the economic shock therapy of José Martínez de Hoz. And we end with the enduring wound: the Madres de Plaza de Mayo still circling, the trials that finally came, and a country still reckoning with its darkest chapter. Names, dates, places—this is the concrete history of Argentina's Proceso de Reorganización Nacional.

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