Alejandro Agustín Lanusse (born the August 28th 1918 - deceased the August 26th 1996) is an Argentinian soldier which occupied de facto the presidency of the Nation between the March 22nd 1971 and the May 25th 1973.

Military career

Lanusse was built-in the cavalry of the Argentinian Army in 1938, after having studied in a military college. It belonged to the aristocratic regiment of prestige of Pomegranates with horse, which it ordered until its judgment with the life imprisonment for its participation in the coup d'etat orchestrated by Benjamín Menéndez against Juan Domingo Perón in 1951 before its re-election. It was released in 1955, after the inversion of Perón.

The following year, it was sent as ambassador to the the Vatican, from where it returned in 1960 to be appointed sub-manager of the University of the Army. As a decided antiperonist, it was implied in rising against Arturo Frondizi, which put Jose María Guido at the capacity, and ultérireurement in the putsch of Juan Carlos Onganía against Arturo Umberto Illia, which they baptized rather pompeusement Argentinian Révolution. In 1962 it ordered the first armor-plated division, and in 1968 was named commander-in-chief of the Army.

Access to the Presidency

It had divergences with the policy participationnist of Onganía. In addition it was clear that alleged Argentinian Révolution weakened seriously and climate became insurrectionary. Also after the clandestine armed organizations started the insurrection known as of the Cordobazo (popular insurrection with Córdoba on May 29th, 1969), it was brought to require the resignation of Onganía, and vis-a-vis its refusal, to relieve it.

The junta of the commander-in-chiefs, of which Lanusse formed part, replaced Onganía by Roberto Marcelo Levingston, which him also after a short period of presidency, having made proof of brutality and cruelty, and being alienated even more the Argentinian ones, lives itself relieved and replaced by Lanusse itself in March 1971.

Form of government

During its mandate it showed a face of great pragmatism, establishing diplomatic relations with China, repatriating the body of Eva Perón and inviting Perón of exile in 1972 has to return. With the economic plan it made carry out important work of infrastructure, like roads, stoppings and powerplants, bridges, etc But its management could never counterbalance the rejection and quasi unanimous popular reprobation which had with the behavior of its two predecessors to the head of the aforesaid the Argentinian Révolution.

He sought a democratic exit with the dead end he charged his Minister of Interior Department of militance radical, Arturo Mor Roig, to develop the great national agreement which would put an end to the military regime.