page_title: 1943 Argentine coup d'état
section_title: Ramírez's dictatorship
hierarchical_section_title: 1943 Argentine coup d'état / Ramírez's dictatorship
caption_attribution_description: Pedro Pablo Ramírez toma juramento a su primer gabinete, 7 de junio de 1943.
context_page_description: The 1943 Argentine coup d'état, also known as the Revolution of '43, was a coup d'état on 4 June 1943 that ended the government of Ramón Castillo, who had been fraudulently elected to the office of vice-president before succeeding to the presidency in 1942 as part of the period known as the Infamous Decade. The military was opposed to Governor Robustiano Patrón Costas, Castillo's hand-picked successor, a major landowner in Salta Province and a primary stockholder in the sugar industry. The only serious resistance to the military coup came from the Argentine Navy, which confronted the advancing army columns at the Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics.
context_section_description: On 7 June, General Pedro Pablo Ramírez was sworn in as President and Sabá Sueyro as Vice-President. Ramírez would serve as president during the first eight months of the Revolution of '43. Ramírez had been Castillo's minister of war and, a few days before the coup, had been invited by a radical faction to lead the ticket of an opposition alliance, the Democratic Union. Ramírez's first cabinet was formed entirely by the military with the sole exception of the Minister of Finance:
  Ministry of Economy and Public Finances: Jorge Santamarina
  Ministry of the Interior: Colonel Alberto Gilbert
  Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Rear Admiral Storni Second;
  Ministry of Justice: Colonel Elbio Anaya
  Ministry of the Navy: Rear Admiral Benito Sueyro
  Ministry of the Army: General Edelmiro J. Farrell
  Ministry of Agriculture: Brigadier General Diego I. Mason
  Ministry of Public Works: Vice Admiral Ismael Galindez
  No members of the GOU were appointed to the cabinet, but two received other important positions: Colonel Enrique González in the private secretariat of the presidency, and Colonel Emilio Ramírez, the president's son, as the Buenos Aires Chief of Police. These two, along with Colonel Gilbert and Rear Admiral Sueyro, would form President Ramírez's inner circle.
caption: General Pedro Pablo Ramírez swearing into office on 7 June 1943. Ramirez was president during the first eight months of the Revolution of '43.
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