Argentinio
01-12-2006, 23:54
02:00 Hours-Buenos Aires, capital city of Argentinio.
In the early hours of a mild yet cold winter morning on the 1st of December 2006, the city of Buenos Aires was to experience the first military coup in the history of Argentinio. In the early hours of this winter morning, Argentinion democracy was on it's deathbed.
Argentinio's democratically elected President, Isabelita Peron, knew that the Argentinion Armed Forces would eventually move to depose her government, given the political, economic and social crises that had gripped Argentinio in the last few years.
Argentinio's universities and higher educational system, the envy of the region in the past, were now hotbeds of Marxist, leftist and other subversive politics. By the end of the 2005/2006 academic year, nearly 90% of Argentinio's universities had been shut down by student campus occupations and student demonstrations were now getting increasingly violent, with clashes between the police and students now a daily reality.
The same far-leftist trend found it's way into the factories and trade unions of Argentinio. Workers now carried out strikes over the most basic and smallest of matters and reasons. There had been three general strikes, each lasting a whole week, in 2006 alone. Again, like with the students, clashes, often very violent, were common between workers and strikers and the police.
The far-leftist urban guerrilla group, the Revolutionary People's Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo-ERP) carried out a number of bomb attacks against foreign embassies, banks, government offices, police stations and the ERP also assasinated a number of high level officers of the Argentinion Armed Forces and the Argentinion Police Force. There was also evidence, gathered by state security agencies, that pointed to the involvement of the rebel ERP to the unrest in the industrial sector and the unrest in the universities.
With massive student unrest, industrial unrest and strikes and ERP terrorist violence, the Argentinion economy was at rock bottom. Inflation was at 175% and unemployment at about 20% of the working age population. Foreign companies now refused to invest in Argentinio given that they faced workers striking and a low level of productivity and the threat of their companies being attacked by the ERP, for the ERP saw foreign companies as 'imperialist capitalists' who were dominating Argentinion life.
Given that the police had to deal with labour unrest, student violence and ERP terrorism, the police were stretched thin and could not function in their duty to combat crime, so drug dealing, prostitution, muggings, property theft, rape and murder all rose to new levels and the crime wave only grew bigger on the back of a depressed economy that made many turn to crime, given the lack of any real means to earn a living via the legitimate economy.
President Isabelita Peron, was a compramise candidate for the post of the presidency, given that she ruled over a coalition government. In the Argentinion parliament, the House of Congress, the different political parties could only argue and throw insults at each other, given that all of the elected politicians were at odds as to how to solve the many grave and serious problems facing the nation.
If something was not done soon, Argentinio could well slide into civil war and a possible far-left and Marxist revolution.
In September of 2006, President Isabelita Peron appointed General Jorge Rafael Videla as Commander in Chief of the Argentinion Armed Forces. General Videla, a hardline right-winger and devout, even fundamentalist Roman Catholic, knew that the military was the only institution in Argentinio that was strong enough and united enough to do something to solve the crises of the nation.
On the morning of the 1st of December, General Videla staged the nation's first military coup. The entire Argentinion military and police were fully supportive of the military coup and General Videla had the full confidence of the Armed Forces.
M-60 and Leopard II MBTs and M-113 and Scorpion APCs were now all around the capital city, Buenos Aires.
The Presidential Palace had been secured by General Videla's troops and the deposed former President, Isabelita Peron, was driven to an Argentinion Air Force base in central Argentinio, as General Videla gave strict orders that the former members of the old government and the deposed President not be harmed. Instead they were to be flown out of Argentinio and exiled for the forseeable future.
After taking over the Presidential Palace, General Videla and his troops took over the House of Congress, the main radio and TV stations, the Police HQ building, the buildings of the respective government ministries, other government office buildings, the Argentinion Stock Exchange building, the main train and bus stations in Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires International Airport.
With the capital secured, over the coming hours, military commanders across the nation, all loyal to General Videla, secured the rest of the country.
By the evening, the nation of Argentinio was under the rule of a military dictatorship under the command of General Jorge Rafael Videla.
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http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/albumes/2006/2006324124251/2006324124350.jpg
General Jorge Rafael Videla (centre) announcing the coup on Argentinion TV.
http://www.sonntagsblatt-bayern.de/img02/02-09videla.jpg
General Jorge Rafael Videla at a military parade in Buenos Aires.
In the early hours of a mild yet cold winter morning on the 1st of December 2006, the city of Buenos Aires was to experience the first military coup in the history of Argentinio. In the early hours of this winter morning, Argentinion democracy was on it's deathbed.
Argentinio's democratically elected President, Isabelita Peron, knew that the Argentinion Armed Forces would eventually move to depose her government, given the political, economic and social crises that had gripped Argentinio in the last few years.
Argentinio's universities and higher educational system, the envy of the region in the past, were now hotbeds of Marxist, leftist and other subversive politics. By the end of the 2005/2006 academic year, nearly 90% of Argentinio's universities had been shut down by student campus occupations and student demonstrations were now getting increasingly violent, with clashes between the police and students now a daily reality.
The same far-leftist trend found it's way into the factories and trade unions of Argentinio. Workers now carried out strikes over the most basic and smallest of matters and reasons. There had been three general strikes, each lasting a whole week, in 2006 alone. Again, like with the students, clashes, often very violent, were common between workers and strikers and the police.
The far-leftist urban guerrilla group, the Revolutionary People's Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo-ERP) carried out a number of bomb attacks against foreign embassies, banks, government offices, police stations and the ERP also assasinated a number of high level officers of the Argentinion Armed Forces and the Argentinion Police Force. There was also evidence, gathered by state security agencies, that pointed to the involvement of the rebel ERP to the unrest in the industrial sector and the unrest in the universities.
With massive student unrest, industrial unrest and strikes and ERP terrorist violence, the Argentinion economy was at rock bottom. Inflation was at 175% and unemployment at about 20% of the working age population. Foreign companies now refused to invest in Argentinio given that they faced workers striking and a low level of productivity and the threat of their companies being attacked by the ERP, for the ERP saw foreign companies as 'imperialist capitalists' who were dominating Argentinion life.
Given that the police had to deal with labour unrest, student violence and ERP terrorism, the police were stretched thin and could not function in their duty to combat crime, so drug dealing, prostitution, muggings, property theft, rape and murder all rose to new levels and the crime wave only grew bigger on the back of a depressed economy that made many turn to crime, given the lack of any real means to earn a living via the legitimate economy.
President Isabelita Peron, was a compramise candidate for the post of the presidency, given that she ruled over a coalition government. In the Argentinion parliament, the House of Congress, the different political parties could only argue and throw insults at each other, given that all of the elected politicians were at odds as to how to solve the many grave and serious problems facing the nation.
If something was not done soon, Argentinio could well slide into civil war and a possible far-left and Marxist revolution.
In September of 2006, President Isabelita Peron appointed General Jorge Rafael Videla as Commander in Chief of the Argentinion Armed Forces. General Videla, a hardline right-winger and devout, even fundamentalist Roman Catholic, knew that the military was the only institution in Argentinio that was strong enough and united enough to do something to solve the crises of the nation.
On the morning of the 1st of December, General Videla staged the nation's first military coup. The entire Argentinion military and police were fully supportive of the military coup and General Videla had the full confidence of the Armed Forces.
M-60 and Leopard II MBTs and M-113 and Scorpion APCs were now all around the capital city, Buenos Aires.
The Presidential Palace had been secured by General Videla's troops and the deposed former President, Isabelita Peron, was driven to an Argentinion Air Force base in central Argentinio, as General Videla gave strict orders that the former members of the old government and the deposed President not be harmed. Instead they were to be flown out of Argentinio and exiled for the forseeable future.
After taking over the Presidential Palace, General Videla and his troops took over the House of Congress, the main radio and TV stations, the Police HQ building, the buildings of the respective government ministries, other government office buildings, the Argentinion Stock Exchange building, the main train and bus stations in Buenos Aires and the Buenos Aires International Airport.
With the capital secured, over the coming hours, military commanders across the nation, all loyal to General Videla, secured the rest of the country.
By the evening, the nation of Argentinio was under the rule of a military dictatorship under the command of General Jorge Rafael Videla.
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(OOC)
http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/albumes/2006/2006324124251/2006324124350.jpg
General Jorge Rafael Videla (centre) announcing the coup on Argentinion TV.
http://www.sonntagsblatt-bayern.de/img02/02-09videla.jpg
General Jorge Rafael Videla at a military parade in Buenos Aires.