Summary of 1970 1973 Dictadura Militar Roberto Marcelo Levingston & Alejandro Agustin Lanusse

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The video discusses the military dictatorship of Roberto Marcelo Levingston and Alejandro Agustin Lanusse in Argentina in the early 1970s. The Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla group, became famous for kidnapping former President Eugenio Aranburu. This event led to the government's decision to appoint Lanusse as the man to lead Argentina's withdrawal from the revolution. However, the military began to lose support from the public and Levingston was eventually elected governor of Córdoba. Levingston promoted the Argentine Law of Purchasing, which would give more power to Argentine industries. In the end, the military was unable to maintain its grip on power and a transition to democracy began.

• 00:00:00 In 1970, Roberto Marcelo Levingston was elected president of Argentina, after the military dictatorship of General Alejandro Agustín Lanusse. This video documents the Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla group that emerged in this time period and became famous for their kidnapping of former President Eugenio Aranburu. This event quickly conmocionó la opinión pública and led to the government's decision to appoint Lanusse as the man to lead Argentina's withdrawal from the revolution, due to the failure of Operation Oganía. The appearance of Aranburu's corpse and Lanusse's inability to clear the crime led to Onganía's ouster and the end of the democratic period in Argentina. The Montoneros began to purchasing land in Buenos Aires and Cordoba, and terrorizing government officials and banks in search of weapons and money. With the rise of rock nacional as well, the military began to lose support from the public. In February of 1971, Roberto Marcelo Levingston was elected governor of Córdoba. Levingston, a pro-nationalist economist,promoted the Argentine Law of Purchasing, which would give more power to Argentine industries and break with
• 00:05:00 In the 1970s, dissatisfaction with the military government was also growing among the general public. Perón also added to the daily grind of the regime by attracting even more ardent followers. It became increasingly difficult to maintain the military's grip on power, and it was rightly judged that the solution to many conflicts lay in ending peronism's proscription and decreeing a political opening that would allow for a transition to democracy. In that context, Roberto Marcelo Levingston was appointed Interior Minister. Arturo Mor Roig, a well-known military radical, proposed a national agreement between Argentines of all stripes - the Can and the ANS - and announced the call for national elections scheduled for March 1973 without proscriptions. In reality, within the Argentine region two competing projects emerged: the Oganía project, promoted by General Onganía, and the ANS announcement project, put forth by Lanusse. S/he summarized and simplified the projects into 32 points, which could be easily compared and contrasted with the provinces of 3 decades earlier. There are a lot of elements to build an analogy between Oganía and 35 years later's Justo Project, which was re-launched within the corporation of light as just and necessary as light is three
• 00:10:00 This video discusses the 1971-1973 military dictatorship of Roberto Marcelo Levingston and Alejandro Agustin Lanusse. The independent voters who were confident that the Peronist party would carry out a process of social justice had been decisive in the Peronist victory.