The Bombing of Plaza de Mayo: Perón's 1955 Fall

In June 1955, Argentine navy and air force planes bombed Plaza de Mayo, killing hundreds in an attempt to kill Juan Domingo Perón. The attack failed, but three months later a military coup—the Revolución Libertadora—succeeded, sending Perón into exile. This episode traces the unraveling of Perón's second term, the devastating aerial assault on Buenos Aires, and the brutal crackdown that followed. We explore the roles of Generals Eduardo Lonardi and Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, the banned Peronist resistance, and how 1955 set the stage for decades of political violence. The bombing remains one of the most shocking moments in Argentine history—a government attacking its own people from the sky.

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