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Vicente Gallo was an Argentine politician and member of the Radical Civic Union. In 1923, then-president Alvear appointed Gallo as Minister of Interior in an attempt to curb yrigoyenista influence within the Radical Civic Union. He was deeply antipersonalist, that is, he opposed Hipólito...

In the early 1880s, he retired from politics, only to return in 1887 after being offered a position in Uruguay. However, what would become of Argentina and South America if Sáenz Peña never left his political retirement? Who would lead the charge to democratize the Argentine electoral process...

The Rodrigazo was an economic plan promoted by the Argentine government of Isabel Perón in 1975, with the intention of "readjusting" the economic system. Could it have been avoided or was a fiscal plan like this always going to happen? What are the impacts of it never happening, or happening at...

Your challenge is to have a war between Argentina and Brazil take place after 1900, you can make a war that involves the two countries on opposing coalitions if you so wish. Personally, I can think of two possibilities: 1 - An Argentina that outright supports the Axis during WWII finds itself in...

Martín de Álzaga was a Spanish merchant of Basque origin who migrated to Buenos Aires at a young age, gaining both wealth and political power as the years went by. He was, together with Santiago de Liniers, one of the main leaders of the resistance against the British invasions of the River...

So I took a cursory look at the Wikipedia article about the Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, and I found out about these two scrapped projects of a jet interceptor and fighter, respectively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._37 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FMA_I.Ae._48 According to their...

I've been reading through the Farm Hall transcripts and stumbled upon this gem. The people in question are: Erich Rudolf Bagge - He developed a gaseous uranium enrichment device for enriching the U-235 isotope content of uranium in 1944, using three methods; centrifugal force, electromagnetism...

It is January 1, 1979, Argentina almost started a war with Chile over the territory of the Beagle and the Strait of Magellan on December 22, 1978. A conflict that was resolved diplomatically with the intervention of Pope John Paul II, Videla knew that this conflict could have made military rule...

Argentina's dispute with Britain over the Falkland Islands goes back centuries, but the 1982 invasion of the islands by Argentina's Junta was largely motivated by a desire to stir up patriotic sentiment to distract from domestic unrest. What would it have taken to prevent the Junta making this...

The Kingdom of Brazil, which I will call Mega Brazil just for fun, is the largest country in the Americas in land area and population. Brazil is the world's biggest monarchy by population and the only majority Portuguese-speaking country in the Americas. Brazil is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...

Spanish Guinea was administratively attached to the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata from 1778 until independence in 1810. After the May Revolution, the colony was forgotten about and fell into disrepair. Trying to keep the territory together in the mainland after the revolution was already enough...

On the face of this idea, not much changes; Scotland went out of the group stage OTL and never really made much of an impact other than what was going off the field such as the infamous hype claiming Scotland were going to win the cup and how the country was on a ridiculous high which ultimately...

Most of Bolivia's territory was once part of the Viceroyalty of Rio de La Plata. In some Argentine wanks, the entire Viceroyalty remains united after independence (like Gran Colombia or the Mexican Empire). But I can't find much info on this idea. The Peru–Bolivian Confederation is a much more...

In the night of February 20th, 1981, an Argentine Airlines Boeing 707 almost hit the Twin Towers in the antena due to the dense fog and rain climate, this leads JFK Airport to installed a new radar warning system to prevent any airline to crash while there's an cloudy and rainy climate, however...

Between 2005 and 2010, Argentina and Uruguay maintained a conflict due to the authorization of the Uruguayan government to build two cellulose pulp plants in their territory and on the binational waters of the Uruguay River. Read more: Uruguay River pulp mill dispute While the conflict was...

Right now, Argentina is on the cusp of an economic collapse that is worse than in 2001 or 1989, and all we know is that Argentina is one of the underdeveloped countries in the world and there are plenty of different academic studies showing that Argentina's economic decline actually began during...

Hello, this is my first post as Fer...!, sorry if it's not the place where I can introduce myself, I just couldn't find it. This is a story I wrote with some friends several years ago - despite some improvementes through the years , well...I actually wrote it with 2 more friends, and it was...

December 19th, 1985 - Magellan Strait "Warzone Charli" Trenches have been set in the surroundings of the city of Punta Arenas, near the town of "tres puentes" north of the city there is constant fire between infantry, several companies have tried to advance, only to be met with astonishing...

September 11th, 1973 - Santiago de Chile General Augusto Pinochet, Army General of the Chilean Army leads a Military Coup against socialist elected president Salvador Allende, at 9 am, that day, two fighters model Hawker Hunter dropped bombs in the Palace of La Moneda, destroying it, there is...

September 11th, 1973 - Santiago de Chile General Augusto Pinochet, Army General of the Chilean Army leads a Military Coup against socialist elected president Salvador Allende, at 9 am, that day, two fighters model Hawker Hunter dropped bombs in the Palace of La Moneda, destroying it, there is...