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The 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état took place in Uruguay on 27 June 1973 and marked the beginning of the civic-military dictatorship which lasted until 1985. [1] President Juan María Bordaberry closed parliament and ruled with the assistance of a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla ...
t. e. The civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay (1973–85), also known as the Uruguayan Dictatorship, was an authoritarian military dictatorship that ruled Uruguay for 12 years, from June 27, 1973 (after the 1973 coup d'état) until March 1, 1985. The dictatorship has been the subject of much controversy due to its violations of human rights ...
1973 Uruguayan general strike. On 27 June 1973 [1] a coup was declared in Uruguay by the president, Juan María Bordaberry, who closed parliament and imposed direct rule from a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement. Within hours of the coup being declared, the leftist ...
The Brazilian military overthrew president João Goulart in 1964. [46] General Hugo Banzer took power in Bolivia in 1971 through a series of coups. [47] [48] The Ecuadorian military overthrew president José María Velasco Ibarra in 1972. A civic-military dictatorship seized power in Uruguay on 27 June 1973. [49] [50]
Juan María Bordaberry Arocena ( Spanish: [boɾðaβeˈri aɾoˈsena]; 17 June 1928 – 17 July 2011), was an Uruguayan politician and cattle rancher who served as the 34th President of Uruguay from 1972 until his resignation in 1976 and the 1st President of the Civic-Military Dictatorship from 1973 to 1976. Previously, he was the Minister of ...
e. The history of Uruguay comprises different periods: the pre-Columbian time or early history (up to the 16th century), the Colonial Period (1516–1811), the Period of Nation-Building (1811–1830), and the history of Uruguay as an independent country (1830–present). Written history began with the arrival of Spanish chroniclers in the ...
The 1973 Chilean coup d'état ( Spanish: Golpe de Estado en Chile de 1973) was a military overthrow of the democratic socialist president of Chile Salvador Allende and his Popular Unity coalition government. [ 10][ 11] Allende, who has been described as the first Marxist to be democratically elected president in a Latin American liberal ...
2019 Venezuelan uprising attempt. On 30 April 2019, during the Venezuelan presidential crisis, a group of several dozen military personnel [ 5] and civilians joined Juan Guaidó in his call for the removal of Nicolás Maduro as part of what he labeled "Operation Freedom" ( Spanish: Operación Libertad ). Reuters reported an "uneasy peace" by ...