Roberto M. Levingston
Roberto M. Levingston | |
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President of Argentina De facto | |
In office June 18, 1970 – March 21, 1971 | |
Preceded by | Juan Carlos Onganía |
Succeeded by | Alejandro Lanusse |
Personal details | |
Born |
San Luis, Argentina | January 10, 1920
Died |
June 17, 2015 95) Buenos Aires, Argentina | (aged
Nationality | Argentine |
Political party | None |
Spouse(s) | Betty Nelly Andrés |
Children |
Roberto Antonio María Cristina Alberto Marcelo |
Profession | Military |
Roberto Marcelo Levingston Laborda (January 10, 1920[1][2][3] – June 17, 2015) was an Argentine Army general who was President of Argentina from June 18, 1970 to March 22, 1971, during the Revolución Argentina period in Argentine history.[4][5]
Levingston was born in San Luis Province, and graduated from the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1941.[6]
His military expertise included intelligence and counterinsurgency, and he took the presidency of Argentina in a military coup that deposed Juan Carlos Onganía over his ineffective response to the Montoneros and other guerillas.[5] His regime was marked by a protectionist economic policy that did little to overcome the inflation and recession that the country was undergoing at the time,[4] and by the imposition of the death penalty against terrorists and kidnappers.[5] In response to renewed anti-government rioting in Córdoba and to the labor crisis under his leadership, he was deposed by another military junta led by Alejandro Lanusse.[4][5]
He died on June 17, 2015, at the age of 95.[6]
References
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=D6HKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA40&dq=Roberto+Marcelo+Levingston&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi714aEqJPUAhWJDCwKHTOOBdYQ6AEILDAD#v=onepage&q=Roberto%20Marcelo%20Levingston&f=false
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=ptZwCVvIJxkC&q=Roberto+Marcelo+Levingston+Laborda&dq=Roberto+Marcelo+Levingston+Laborda&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwio4obYqZPUAhXM1ywKHQLDAHsQ6AEIMDAE
- ↑ http://www.genealogiafamiliar.net/getperson.php?personID=I649478&tree=BVCZ
- 1 2 3 Lewis, Daniel K. (2001), The History of Argentina, The Greenwood histories of the modern nations, Greenwood Publishing Group, pp. 134–135, ISBN 978-0-313-31256-4.
- 1 2 3 4 Keen, Benjamin; Haynes, Keith (2008), A History of Latin America (8th ed.), Cengage Learning, p. 374, ISBN 978-0-618-78318-2.
- 1 2 "Murió Roberto Marcelo Levingston", La Nación (in Spanish), June 18, 2015