Rosariazo

Rosariazo. Protests in Rosario over food prices were repressed and High School student Luis Blanco was killed by police. Protests widened in the region throughout May, including unionists and priests, and they began lashing out against de facto ruler General Juan Carlos Ongania. The momentum died down, but demonstrations sprang back up in September, both against the history of repression, and in response to attacks on the railroad workers. Factories were occupied, and a regional general strike shut down most of the industry. Ongania ordered violent repression, and hundreds were slain. A military coup deposed him the next year.