Argentine Republic/Paths

Following a decade of the Patriotic League's infighting, yet another financial crisis strikes Argentina in 1963, prompting yet another attempt at a coup d'état by Argentina's ever-persistent officers.

### Path 1 - The League endures

Though the Patriotic League survives the popular coup, its internal division between its factions has become completely untenable, triggering mass riots in the streets and purges in the night. Much like his predecessor, Lonardi's time is limited; the mass violence and inability for the party to curb its internal struggles has led to the kidnapping of a key party official. The launch of yet another purge, recalling the events of the 1950s, has further legitimized the struggle as a shadow looms over Argentina, fought not with officers, but with the people.

The final straw breaking the camel's back in Argentina is the Santiago Spring, as the proxy National Republic of Chile falls, declaring the restoration of democracy under the old Syndicalist government.

#### Path 1A - Lonardi endures

If Lonardi prevails within the party, appealing once again to the Catholic elite, mass resistance only increases, and public pressure will boil over and trigger mass civilian uprisings as the Party opposition, in a last ditch attempt expels him. In a last ditch attempt at keeping his government, Lonardi marches once again on Buenos Aires in an attempted self-coup that results in **civil war**.

#### Path 1B - Goyeneche becomes Caudillo

Juan Carlos Goyeneche represents the Tacuarist wing of the League, a Right-Falangist, National Populist group making grounds with worker councils and representing the main opposition within the Party, overpowers the Integralist wing and becomes Caudillo. Goyeneche then proceeds to purge Argentine society to consolidate its position firmly into the ground; gradually launching mass killings and purges against immigrant communities, Jews, and certain landowners, gaining favor with both the far-right and some left-wing groups.

Goyeneche is unique in his interactions with the new Chile, and, like most other successors, spark the Chilean Intervention War. However, if won, the new government will not emulate the former National Republic, but instead be declared as a national syndicalist Falangist state under Miguel Serrano.

Though Goyeneche will institute a new era for Argentina under his totalitarian government, he will have to contend with compromising with faction opposition and military leaders while establishing his state. The Goyeneche regime will embrace the creation of an ultranationalist welfare state, embracing corporatism and eliminating perceived usury at all costs.

#### Part 1C - Camps becomes Caudillo

Ramón Camps, a loyal general, would be elected as a joint Integralist-Tacuarist olive branch to the military officers who had opposed the League, as well as a branch to the populace who would see him as a party outsider; Camps, though an avid supporter of the League, had never held office as a bureaucrat.

As Caudillo, Camps would strongarm the party and country like any other Argentine dictator; however, as his leadership progresses, he would become more and more extreme in his policies, cracking down further and further on the resistance and beginning the Dirty War. He will purge the party and empower the orthodox moderates, disempowering Tacuarists and Integralists alike.

The most striking aspect of his dictatorship would be his promotion of aggressive irredentism and ultramilitarism, widening his appeal with the whole of the party while causing panic in neighboring countries. When intervening in Chile, he will outright form an autonomous governorate, much like what was formed in Paraguay decades earlier, causing a mass exodus of Chilean refugees abroad; particularly into Uruguay, which already became a haven for the Paraguayan and Argentine resistance.

As a result, he'll increasingly push for Uruguayan concessions, demanding they extradite their refugees for crimes against the government, sparking a diplomatic crisis with Brazil. When negotiations fail, Camps will order a full-scale invasion of Uruguay, sparking the **Great South American War**.

### Path 2 - Coup d'état

If the coup succeeds, a military junta will be formed with the moderate *azulista* Isaac Rojas at its head. Rojas aims to transition Argentina into a de jure democracy, de facto military stratocracy, but will have to tie a stiff balance between the still-powerful Liga Patriótica, as well as the opposing *Colorado* faction of the officer corps, who disagrees on its moderate policies and wishes to fully outlaw the League.

#### Path 2A - Successful transition

if Rojas manages to successfully navigate the tightrope of appeasing the public, the League, and the rest of the officers, the military junta will hold a stable and firm position. Rojas will focus on navigating the Buenos Aires-Lima Axis into a legitimate Sphere in global politics, moving away from the Accord and towards a more flexible international policy.

#### Path 2B - Colorado coup

If Rojas moves too far in favor of the League, the tightrope collapses as the *Colorado* kingpin Juan Perón takes charge in a coup d'état. An influential figure who has dominated the Colorado movement, Perón curries favor between the more old guard of still anti-League officers, democratic activists, and trade unionists, but is staunchly opposed to both capitalists and communists alike.

#### Path 2C - League countercoup

If Rojas moves too far in favor of the people, the League's remnants will launch a countercoup and reclaim its former position, forming an interim government. However, during the now-resumed power struggle between integralists and tacuanists, Goyeneche is assassinated in the midst of the already-boiling conflict, causing the newly-restored League to break apart, causing **civil war.**

## Second Argentine Civil War

The Second Argentine Civil War can start on two paths: 1A and 2C. In either, however, the factions will remain the same. It is kickstarted usually by the assassination of Juan Carlos Goyeneche by an unknown agent.

### Argentine Salvation Government

The Salvation Government of the Republic of Argentina (*Spanish: **Gobierno de Salvación de la República Argentina***) (GSRA) is led by Isaac Rojas, the most prominent anti-League officer and a leading figure in the 1964 coup/attempted coup, leading a united front between conservative pro-democracy groups as well as powerful navy and air officers, in a tenuous-at-best alliance of convenience.

They are a Stratocracy supported by the Entente, excluding the Kingdom of Portugal, and the United States of Brazil.

### New Patagonia

The **Popular Patagonist Front of Free Argentina** (*Spanish: **Frente Popular Patagonista de Argentina Libre**)* (FPPAL) is led by Ernesto Guevara as well as John William Cooke, two committed leftists marked by their father's deaths by the totalitarian regime of Argentina. They have united the Argentine resistance into a popular front against the totalitarian integralist government of the Patriotic League. The guerilla armies draw support in the Patagonian Desert and Andes Mountains, but maintain cells across the entire country, drawing international support from its many agents; particularly Tamara Bunke, the youngest top-ranking agent of the Revolution.

They are a Radical Socialist group supported by the Third International.

#### Patagonist Victory

If the Patagonists win, they will inaugurate John William Cooke as the Chairman of the **Patagonist Republic of Argentina**, and the independence of Paraguay will be restored. The Buenos Aires-Lima Axis will completely collapse; instead being replaced with the **Southern Union**; a pro-International economic and military union between it, Chile, and newly-independent Paraguay.

##### Second War of the Confederation

The Peru-Bolivian Confederation will be outraged at the complete collapse of an entire semisphere, and will attempt to take matters into their own hands as the target of secret cooperation between the Entente and the Moscow Accord; steering gunboat diplomacy and paranoia against the Southern Union. The Dominion of Canada will blockade the southern cone, much to the chagrin of Brazil and the Third International, causing diplomatic crisis and a breakdown of negotiations, sparking the Southern Union to launch a joint invasion of the Confederation.

If the Union is victorious in the Confederation, the Republic of Bolivia will declare independence and the Peru-Bolivian Confederation will officially be broken, with Peru retreating to consolidate its position. Though Bolivia will immediately cede Antofagasta to Chile, it will keep the Chaco, and the territory of Arica-Tarapacá will be held by the Peruvian government, keeping tensions high between Peru and the Union. Bolivia, a neutral power, will fall afterwards to a civil war between pro-Entente democrats, pro-Peru nationalists, and pro-Union socialists.

If the war endures for too long, Ernesto Guevara will be captured and killed by a Pacific agent in Bolivia, and Canadian operatives will send in the Río de la Plata Expeditionary Force (RPEF) into Buenos Aires in what's dubbed as the "Third Intervention War", as the Patagonists suffer massive negative bonuses. If/when the RPEF wins in this case, it will form an Entente proxy state in the form of a capitalist military junta, re-annexing Paraguay and forcing the revolution back to Chile. Though the decision not to restore the Patriotic League will be hated by the Accord, they will nevertheless be satisfied with the second defeat of Argentine socialism.

### Integralist Argentina

The **Emergency Government of the Argentine Republic** (*Spanish: **Gobierno de Emergencia de la Confederación Argentina***) (GECA) is led by Eduardo Lonardi, who is either the current or former caudillo, on behalf of the conservative Catholic elite of the Patriotic League. The faction draws support from the elite among the northern provinces.

They are an Integralist group supported by the Kingdom of Portugal, and optionally the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.

### Tacuarist Argentina

The Patriotic Army of the Argentine State (*Spanish: **Ejército Patriótico del Estado Argentino***) (EPEA) is led by José López Rega, a senior member of the Tacuarist wing of the Patriotic League who took Goyeneche's mantle after his assassination. The faction draws support from various army factions, anti-communist trade unions, and ultranationalists.

They are a National Populist group supported by the Moscow Accord, and optionally the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere.