32 Standoffs

Radical Civic Union politician Arturo Frondizi becomes president, elected by the votes of the outlawed Peronist movement, to whom he has promised participation in the country's political system. During the forty-six months of his administration, he will face thirty-two standoffs with the military, some of them involving the deployment of tanks in the streets of Buenos Aires. The intensity of the Peronist resistance grows; oil pipelines are blown up and there is a generalized sabotage of manufaccuring. Striking railroad workers are militarized and soldiers run the trains. Tanks break down the doors of the Lisandro de la Torre meat-packing plant, which has been occupied by its workers.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior