Infamous Decade

<p>The Infamous Decade  was a period in <a href="/facts/History_of_Argentina/aWblM9AH">Argentine history</a> that began with the <a href="/facts/1930_Argentine_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat/vlpKR53Y">1930 coup d'état</a> against <a href="/facts/President_of_Argentina/RJpPWGFK">President</a> <a href="/facts/Hip%C3%B3lito_Yrigoyen/6uQPpwgD">Hipólito Yrigoyen</a>. This decade was marked on one hand by significant <a href="/facts/Rural_exodus/D1cxfeAY">rural exodus</a>, with many small rural landowners ruined by the <a href="/facts/Great_Depression/5K13wcg0">Great Depression</a>, which in turn pushed the country towards <a href="/facts/Import_substitution_industrialization/CdmP75Kb">import substitution industrialization</a>, and on the other hand, by <a href="/facts/Electoral_fraud/Mrud2cLA">electoral fraud</a> to perpetuate conservative governments in power. The poor results of economic policies and popular discontent led to another coup in 1943, the <a href="/facts/Revolution_of_%2743/Tv4ExYNA">Revolution of 1943</a>, by the <i><a href="/facts/Grupo_de_Oficiales_Unidos/VVb6X54p">Grupo de Oficiales Unidos</a></i> (GOU), a nationalist faction of the <a href="/facts/Argentine_Armed_Forces/8828zvAV">Armed Forces</a>, which triggered the rise to power of <a href="/facts/Juan_Per%C3%B3n/KQQm2xGI">Juan Perón</a>.
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Infamous Decade