Cordobazo

The Cordobazo was a civil uprising in the city of Córdoba, Argentina at the end of May 1969. It occurred a few days after the Rosariazo protests erupted in the Santa Fe Province against the military dictatorship of General Juan Carlos Onganía. With its element of radical student participation, the Cordobazo is often viewed as a continuation of the global protests of 1968. Starting in mid-May 1969, a series of Argentine strikes and protests brought police repression, which triggered a wider insurrection. The two pivotal days of the Cordobazo were 29 and 30 May 1969. That is when the labor union CGT, headed in Córdoba by Agustín Tosco, called for a national strike immediately after the city of Córdoba initiated a general strike. The historian James Brennan characterized the Cordobazo as a "fateful step toward the violent climax the country would experience" in the Argentine coup d'état of 1976.