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Juan Manuel de Rosas was the Argentine dictator who de facto ruled Argentina as Governor of Buenos Aires from 1829 all the way to 1852, when he was removed from power by a grand coalition involving Argentine Unitarians, Uruguayans, some Federalist caudillos and the Brazilian Empire in the Battle...

(an actual timeline) * denotes changes from OTL (explanations in parentheses) c1807 Britain successfully invades & captures Chiloé from Spain* (OTL Britain unsuccessfully invaded Montevideo) Chiloé's trade booms as it is opened to British commerce 1808 local junta begins rule the...

No, I don't mean the religion :p In 1820, a major battle broke out in Argentina (or as it was called then, the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata) over which ideology would predominate in Argentina, at least at that moment. On one side were the Federalists. They were conservative, somewhat...

The "Argentine paradox" is a term used for the economic history of Argentina - at the beginning of the last century the country was one of the richest in the world in terms of GNP per capita, surpassing countries such as Germany, France and the Netherlands, while today it is a middle-developed...

A little known chapter of history is told by journalist Eduardo Bueno in his amazing book "Captains of Brazil", that talks about the history of Colonial Brazil from the 1530s to the 1550s. Among the many things told in the book a particular stands out: the attempted colonization of the Río de la...

This account may be new, but I have been reading all sorts of different alternate-history fictions posted here for a long time, at long last, it is my time now to entertain others with a new timeline. I have noticed (or at least not seen) no one attempting to create a timeline with a similar...

This has major ramifications IMO, firstly there were proposals for Paraguay to join the war against Juan Manuel Rosas that never materialized. But if it did, and especially if it happened, its impacts would be enormous. Firstly, Rosas is defeated even harder at the Battle of Caseros in 1852, and...

Previous thread in this topic by @GauchoBadger. So basically Brazil almost annexed the region of Chiquitos in 1825, and this resulted in a diplomatic crisis between Brazil and Bolivar's Gran Colombia. This also involved the United Provinces of La Plata, which was in midst of its own war against...

During the Battle of San Lorenzo, José de San Martín - which would later be known for liberating Argentina, Peru and Chile from Spanish control during the Hispanic independence wars - was wounded. According to some historians and urban legends, a former slave by the name of Juan Bautista Cabral...

If we can manage it, this happens sometime in the 19th century such that the armaments industry is well capable of designing and constructing a wide range of warships all the way to dreadnought battleships when that era is reached. Following that of course fast battleships, carriers and so on...

Frondizi was president of Argentina, starting in 1958, until he was removed by military pressure in 1962. Is it possible for Arturo to resist the coup, and if so how will Argentina develop? He was a progressive modernizer who was sympathetic to Peronism (although by this point in his life he...

In 1956, a group of officers led by General Juan José Valle led a rebellion against the Argentine government. Its main objective was to take Juan Perón out of his exile and back to Argentina. IOTL, this rebellion was quickly suppressed, but what if it succeeded in toppling the government? Would...

I'm not gonna be too specific, but what if the Revolución Libertadora somehow fails, and Juan Perón remains president of Argentina? For one, I think that Argentina would be more stable, but there are also a few negative consequences of a continued Peronist government: Less modernization: The...

In 1955, before the Revolución Libertadora, an attempt was made to remove Perón from the presidency. It involved the bombing of the Plaza de Mayo, with the intention of destroying the Casa Rosada and killing the Argentine president. From there, a junta would be declared and a new government...

Eva Perón was the wife of Juan Perón during his first term as president, in the late-40s and early-50s. Through the Eva Perón Foundation, a solid base of support for Peronism was in the process of construction, as this foundation provided basic necessities such as food and clothing to many...

Although brought about by a military coup, Juan Perón himself was at the risk of being ousted from power many times during his first presidency. He garnered the opposition of many sectors of the Argentine society, especially its upper-class, who weren't so keen on the president's popularity and...

With a POD of July 1943 (a month after Juan Perón took power in a military coup), your challenge is for him to lose the 1946 presidential election. You can make use of any POD, except for "Perón is removed in a coup and/or is barred from running", that's too easy.

Juan Bautista Molina was a brigadier general in the Argentine Army. He's best known for his far-right views, which let to conflict with the rulling Argentine government in the 1930s. In 1936, for example, he attempted to overthrow the government and replace it with a far-right dictatorship...

(Note: a big portion of this scenario is based on information from the Spanish wikipedia article on Molina) Juan Bautista Molina may just be one of the most underused figures in alternate history. A fascist and a pro-Germany military general, he led many conspiracies to overthrow the government...

Following the 1930 coup d'État, Argentina has accumulated multiple coups and the government has been overthrown many times. But this wasn't the situation at the start of the 20th century. Argentina wasn't democratic by any stretch, in fact, it was dominated by a conservative oligarchy which...