Because of anger over the decision to hold a second successive World Cup in Europe, neither Uruguay nor Argentina entered the competition, while Spain became the first country to be prevented from competing by war.

In response to the Great Depression, successive governments pursued a strategy designed to transform Argentina into a country self-sufficient in industry as well as agriculture.

In Argentina, successive administrations have used a variety of passive and active labor market interventions to protect workers against the consequences of economic shocks and the government's key institutional response to combat the increase in poverty and unemployment created by the crisis was the launch of an active unemployment assistance program called Plan Jefas y Jefes de Hogar Desocupados ( Program for Unemployed Heads of Households ).

Spain, Portugal ( 1974 ), and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the late 1970s and early 1980s ( Argentina in 1983, Bolivia, Uruguay in 1984, Brazil in 1985, and Chile in the early 1990s ).

The islands were subsequently liberated by British forces just 74 days after the start of the war, which led to the collapse of the military dictatorship in Argentina.

After the Polisario Front shot down one Defender and damaged two in 1978 the Mauritanian government ordered six IA-85 Pucaras for ground attack duties from Argentina ; this order was later cancelled after a Mauritanian military coup.

* 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11 and a half day constitutional crisis.

The Montoneros and the ERP went on to attack business and political figures throughout Argentina as well as raid military bases for weapons and explosives.

On 16 September 1974 about forty Montoneros bombs exploded throughout Argentina, targeting foreign companies and also ceremonies commemorating the military revolt which had ended Juan Perón's first term as president.

By the time Videla's military Junta took power in March 1976, approximately five thousand prisoners were being held in various prisons around Argentina, some with connections and some just guilty by association.

According to different sources, 8, 000 to 30, 000 people, are estimated to have disappeared and died during the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.

Nations that permit gay people to serve openly in the military include the 4 of the 5 members of the UN Security Council ( United States, United Kingdom, France, and Russia ), the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), Australia, Israel, Argentina, and all NATO members excluding Turkey.

* 1983 – The first democratic elections in Argentina after seven years of military rule are held.

Discontent spread, and the last straw was the request by the Asunción cabildo for Portuguese military support against Belgrano's forces, who were encamped just over the border in present-day Argentina.

By outwitting porteño diplomats in the negotiations that produced the Treaty of October 11, 1811 ( in which Argentina implicitly recognized Paraguayan independence in return for vague promises of a military alliance ), Francia proved that he possessed skills crucial to the future of the country.

To make matters worse, the porteño government agitated for Paraguayan military assistance against the Spanish in Uruguay and, disregarding the Treaty of October 11, for unification of Paraguay with Argentina.

In addition, Stroessner's economic policies had boosted exports and investment and reduced inflation, and the military coups in Brazil in 1964 and Argentina in 1966 also improved the international climate for nondemocratic rule in Paraguay.

New United States supported military governments in Brazil and Argentina also improved United States-Paraguay ties.

A military training agreement with Asunción, giving immunity to US soldiers, caused some concern after media reports initially reported that a base housing 20, 000 US soldiers was being built at Mariscal Estigarribia within 200 km of Argentina and Bolivia, and 300 km of Brazil, near an airport which could receive large planes ( B-52, C-130 Hercules, etc.

* 1955 – The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight on this date.

* Argentina During the military dictatorship in the 1970s, a great number of children whose parents had been abducted and murdered by the Regime were given to adoptive parents who ignored or decided to hide those children's true identities.

In the 1950s Chilean military founded Puerto Williams to counter Ushuaia's monopoly as the only settlement in the Beagle Channel, a zone where Argentina disputed the 1881 borders.

* 1976-Jorge Rafael Videla seizes control of Argentina in 1976 through a coup sponsored by the Argentine military, establishing himself as a dictator of a military junta government in the country.

* June 4 – A military coup d ' état in Argentina ousts Ramón Castillo.

** Argentina military forces depose president Isabel Peron.

* March 29 – The military dictatorship of General Jorge Videla comes to power in Argentina.

* March 23 – General Alejandro Lanusse of Argentina takes power in a military coup.

Category: Military coups in Argentina

This decade was one of revolutions and coups d ' état in Latin America, including Argentina in 1943.

On 15 June 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

This led the Colorados and the exiled Unitarios to seek French backing against Oribe and on June 15, 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

Returning to Argentina, he participated in the coup that overthrew Castillo.

* 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

Countries that officially recognize the Armenian genocide include Argentina, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, Vatican City and Venezuela ; additionally, some regional governments of countries recognize the Armenian genocide, such as New South Wales in Australia and Wales in the United Kingdom, also officially recognize the Armenian Genocide.

The governments of Argentina, Australia, Brazil, India and Mexico, among others, are also organized along federalist principles.

Monroe informed Congress in March 1822 that permanent stable governments had been established in the United Provinces of La Plata ( present-day Argentina ), Chile, Peru, Colombia and Mexico.

A State Department document made available by the National Security Archive on 10 April 2010 reveals that a démarche protesting Pinochet's Operation: Condor assassination program was proposed and sent on 23 August 1976 to US diplomatic missions in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile to be delivered to their host governments but later rescinded on 16 September 1976 by Henry Kissinger, following concerns raised by US ambassadors assigned there of both personal safety and a likely diplomatic contretemps.

Paraguay declared its independence from Spain in 1811 ; since then, the country has had a history of dictatorial governments, from the Utopian regime of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia ( El Supremo ) to the suicidal reign of Francisco Solano López, who nearly devastated the country in warfare against the combined forces of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay from 1865 through 1870.

However, crackdowns by the governments of Brazil and Argentina have stemmed the flow of shoppers travelling to Paraguay looking for trafficable items.

A sanitary convention between the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay was concluded in Montevideo on 21 April 1914.

As such, the FARC has been classified as a terrorist organization by the governments of Colombia, the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, and the European Union ; whereas the governments of Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Nicaragua do not classify the FARC as a terrorist organization.

During the 1940s Chile and Argentina formulated their Antarctic claims, and governments realized the key role of Tierra del Fuego's geographical proximity in backing their claims as well as to supply their Antarctic bases.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the governments of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay were overthrown or displaced by U. S .- aligned military dictatorships.

As they had during World War I, Argentine governments of different ideological stripes remained consistent in one important foreign policy point: they maintained Argentina neutral, preferring to avail the nation's vast agricultural export capacity to British and U. S. wartime needs ; indeed, Argentine trade surpluses totalled US $ 1 billion during World War I and US $ 1. 7 billion during World War II.

The first steps in import substitution were less theoretical and more pragmatic choices on how to face the limitations imposed by recession, even though the governments in Argentina ( Juan Domingo Perón ) and Brazil ( Getúlio Vargas ) had the precedent of Fascist Italy ( and, to some extent, the Soviet Union ) as inspirations of state-induced industrialization.

Borne out of the backdrop of Keynesian, advocating government intervention, and neoclassical economics, stressing reduced intervention, with rise of high-growth countries ( Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong ) and planned governments ( Argentina, Chile, Sudan, Uganda ), economic development, more generally development economics, emerged amidst these mid-20th century theoretical interpretations of how economies prosper.

Paraguay was a leading participant in Operation Condor, a campaign of state-terror and security operations which were jointly conducted by the right-wing military governments of six Latin American countries ( Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil ).

Indeed, under IMF rules, national governments are not permitted to go bankrupt ( although this is sometimes ignored, as when Argentina ' restructured ' its foreign debt ).

Condor's key members were the governments in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.

In May 1941, as tensions at the Ecuadorian-Peruvian border mounted and war was imminent, the governments of the United States, Brazil, and Argentina offered their services in aiding in the mediation of the dispute.

As of 2010, several Latin American countries were led by socialist or other left wing governments, some of which — including Argentina and Venezuela — have campaigned for ( and to some degree adopted ) policies contrary to the Washington Consensus policies.

: We, the undersigned participants at the 12th Scientific Conference of the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements ( IFOAM ) at Mar del Plata, Argentina, call on governments and regulatory agencies throughout the world to immediately ban the use of genetic engineering in agriculture and food production since it involves:

In recent years, several Latin American countries led by socialist or other left wing governments — including Argentina and Venezuela — have campaigned for ( and to some degree adopted ) policies contrary to the Washington Consensus set of policies.