AKA, in English, The Long and Dark Night. A late 20th century Argentinian timeline written by maverick. It can be read here.

It holds the distinction of being one of the few of maverick's TLs that survived his ill-advised attempt at deleting and moving the threads containing said TLs.

What if a civil war had erupted in Argentina in September 1955, between Peron and the Revolutionaries ?

Starting on June 16th, the crisis between Peron and his opposition grows out of proportion and on September 16th, a civil war starts.

• Juan Domingo Peron, President of Argentina
• Arturo Frondizi, head of the UCR, leader of the opposition
• Alvaro Alsogaray, conservative, also member of the anti-Peronist opposition
• General Eduardo Lonardi (leader of the 1955 Revolution)
• General Pedro E. Aramburu (1955 Revolutionary leader)
• Jorge Luis Borges (writer)
• General Jose Embrioni (Peronist)
• Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Guerrilla fighter in Northern Argentina)
• Colonel Ramon Barquin (President of Cuba 1956-196?)
• Juscelino Kubitschek (President of Brazil)
• Richard Nixon (VPOTUS)
• President Eisenhower
• The Brothers Dulles
• William F. Knowland

• A Civil War in Argentina on Septemer of 1955
• A more authoritarian and longlived Peronist regime that lasts well into the 1960s, and the exile of hundreds of artists, intellectuals, anti-peronists and the political leadership opposed to Peron;
• Widespread political violence in Argentina;
• Widespread political divisions and violence in Brazil
• The success of Ramon Barquin's 1956 coup against Batista; Castro goes into non-revolutionary politics.

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