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Videla and Galtieri: AD 1976-1982
Isabel Perón remains in power for two years, presiding over a decrepit economy with inflation running at an annual rate of 600%. The outcome, in 1976, is another military coup.
The events of 1976 bring to power General Jorge Videla and the most oppressive regime in Argentina's history. In the purges known as the 'disappearances' thousands of left-wing opponents are murdered (some of them by being thrown alive from aircraft into the sea). But it is incompetence rather than brutality which finally topples the junta. By the end of 1981 the leader is another general, Leopoldo Galtieri. He embarks in 1982 on an adventure which he hopes will add lustre to the regime's tarnished image.