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Juan Peron
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Juan Peron, an army colonel, helped engineer a 1943 military coup and built a political base among organized labor as secretary of labour before being elected president of Argentina in 1946. He was overthrown by a military coup in 1955, returned from exile, and was elected president again in 1973, dying in office on 1 July 1974. His government expanded labor rights, education, and social security while also restricting civil liberties and press freedom against political opponents, and the political movement he founded, Peronism, remained the dominant force in Argentine politics long after his death.
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