Roberto Eduardo Violated

See also: Violated (homonymy)

Roberto Eduardo Viola (born with Buenos Aires the October 13rd 1924 - died the September 30th 1994) is a Militaire and a Head of Argentinian State which held the presidency of the Nation between the March 29th 1981 and the December 11th of the same year, that lasting what was called by the military Dictature the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (process of national reorganization) (between 1976 and 1983).

Violated replaced Jorge Rafael Videla following tensions within the military, dissatisfied direction of the incapacity of this last to stabilize the economic situation and following the civil agitation which reigned. Violated, in favor of the soft line , moved away the immediate collaborators from Videla and began an opening partial by the reincorporation of politicians from career and civil technicians in public offices. The circumstances allowed that the CGT Argentina reorganizes and is mobilized under the direction of Saúl Ubaldini, and this in spite of legal prohibition.

The economic measures of the Viola government were shown quite as ineffective as those of its predecessor. Sights the constant devaluations of the Argentinian peso vis-a-vis the dollar, impelled by the Minister for the economy Jose Martínez de Hoz during the government of Videla, the preference was marked in the country for the purchase of currencies, means of liquidating its pesos become currency of monkey, against solid currency. The small savers made in the same way and thus avoided investing in the economy of the country.

The new Minister for the economy indicated by Viola, Lorenzo Sigaut, affirmed the day of his nomination that “that which is pressed on the dollar is losing”. But a few days after it carried out a devaluation of 30% with respect to the dollar, showing well that which had not taken its advice was gaining! This devaluation was a desperate attempt to attract the overseas investments. On the whole the inflation of 1981 was going to reach 131% on annual base.

The economic vexations and the prospects for opening of the government for Violated brought the constitution of a multi-party junta on the side of the political principal parties, with the research of the realization of elections. This prospect led the military junta to reorganize in November 1981. Y were then integrated the general Leopoldo Galtieri, the admiral Jorge Anaya and the general sergeant Basilio Lami Dozo, all partisans of a harder control of the civil situation. Although Viola had never stopped repression nor the operations against “subversion”, at the end of December, it was forced to give its apron and from to go away. And Galtieri replaced it with the report heading.

In 1983, with the return of the democracy, Viola was stopped and judged for the crimes committed under its reign. In 1985 it was condemned to 17 years of prison, perpetual ineligibility and loss of its military rank. It left prison, as well as other military leaders in 1990, following the grace conceded by the president Carlos Menem. He died in 1994, before the reopening of causes in his opposition.

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