Revolutionary War Analysis
The time of the Dirty War was suitably volatile: amidst its failed war, the Argentine government’s mandates gave control to the government but took away the country’s strength.President Juan Perón, who propitiated policies of social welfare and maintained a brutal grip on his people, set the Dirty War in motion after his return to power in October 1973. The incoming military government temporarily kept Argentina afloat by borrowing increasingly large loans and delivering propaganda to its people. However, by the start of the 1980s, the government’s spending and lies caught up with them and both Argentina’s economy and popularity plummeted. As protests sparked across Argentina and international organizations discovered the dictatorship's human
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General Videla could no longer control his allies: even under the patriotism that fell upon Argentina when it won the World Cup in 1978, Jorge Videla still had to put down hard-line rebellions around the country. Dissent soon reached a point where moderates and Argentina’s middle class began to rebel with its long-standing extremists. In light of their lost children and husbands, a group of mothers started the movement of protest against Argentina’s government. To this day, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo continue to march in silent vigil. In concert with public disapproval, Argentina went through yet another economic contraction and bureaucratic shakeup. During yet another change of power, General Leopoldo Galtieri became the new de facto president. As president, Galtieri ordered the Argentine military to retake the sparsely populated Islas Malvinas, known as the Falkland Islands in English. The small, poorly fortified garrison quickly fell and Leopoldo Galtieri rode a new wave of national pride to continue his rule. Previously used as a coaling station, the Falklands fell out of Britain’s view with the advent of diesel-fueled warships. Whilst the Falklands were technically owned by Britain, “The Malvinas nonetheless appeared on every schoolchild map of Argentina, and patriotic pride was always just below the surface” (Brown 244). After Galtieri ‘liberated’ the Malvinas, he stationed poorly trained and equipped troops in the area. Although argentina took it back, it was only because britain was not aware. Britain brought its main forces and easily obliterated the Argentine military. As one Argentine recruit put it, “I told them in one conversation that I’d only done five shooting tests and had fifty days’ training, they banged their heads on the walls. They couldn’t understand it… All the english soldiers had had at least three years of training. And
General Videla could no longer control his allies: even under the patriotism that fell upon Argentina when it won the World Cup in 1978, Jorge Videla still had to put down hard-line rebellions around the country. Dissent soon reached a point where moderates and Argentina’s middle class began to rebel with its long-standing extremists. In light of their lost children and husbands, a group of mothers started the movement of protest against Argentina’s government. To this day, the Madres de Plaza de Mayo continue to march in silent vigil. In concert with public disapproval, Argentina went through yet another economic contraction and bureaucratic shakeup. During yet another change of power, General Leopoldo Galtieri became the new de facto president. As president, Galtieri ordered the Argentine military to retake the sparsely populated Islas Malvinas, known as the Falkland Islands in English. The small, poorly fortified garrison quickly fell and Leopoldo Galtieri rode a new wave of national pride to continue his rule. Previously used as a coaling station, the Falklands fell out of Britain’s view with the advent of diesel-fueled warships. Whilst the Falklands were technically owned by Britain, “The Malvinas nonetheless appeared on every schoolchild map of Argentina, and patriotic pride was always just below the surface” (Brown 244). After Galtieri ‘liberated’ the Malvinas, he stationed poorly trained and equipped troops in the area. Although argentina took it back, it was only because britain was not aware. Britain brought its main forces and easily obliterated the Argentine military. As one Argentine recruit put it, “I told them in one conversation that I’d only done five shooting tests and had fifty days’ training, they banged their heads on the walls. They couldn’t understand it… All the english soldiers had had at least three years of training. And