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Why Did Argentina Fall So Fast

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Argentina: one of the southernmost countries in the world. It is a Spanish speaking regional power, and is a developed nation, standing 35th in the World. However, Argentina, just a century earlier, was a global power, a formidable nation to be reckoned with. Argentina, at the time, was the 7th most developed nation on the globe, ranking better than Russia, China and even Italy. It had the largest immigrant population in Latin America, and the second largest in the world, only surpassed by the United States. Nearly 7 million immigrants took up residence in the country, and literacy rates skyrocketed. Argentina was number 1# in the exporter of many products, including beef. But, in the decades that followed, Argentina’s development lagged behind the rest of the world, stagnant and lacking progress. Argentina dropped from 7th to 54th most developed country in the world. Her immigrant influx dropped exponentially. One might ask: what caused Argentina to fall so fast? The partial answer was decades of political mismanagement, corruption, and a grim series of dictatorships. However, the real stagnation and destruction of Argentina’s power came in the 1970’s and 1980, with horrific crimes committed …show more content…

The term refers to the a period between 1930 to 1943, when the military of Argentina staged a coup d'etat against the legitimate president, Hipólito Yrigoyen. Yrigoyen, an overwhelmingly popular president, implanted policies which guaranteed free education for the masses, improved work conditions, guaranteed livable pensions, and other progressive reforms. The Argentine military, however, saw these new policies as a break with the age old hierarchy, and began plotting to overthrow Yrigoyen. On the 6th of september, Yrigoyen was ousted in a bloodless coup, and the inspector general of the army, José Félix Uriburu, was proclaimed president of the

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