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Season 1 · Episode 6

The will of the majority (1916–1930)

0.052mAugust 15, 2015

After years of electoral fraud, the Sáenz Peña electoral reform faces its decisive test as Argentines freely elect a president in 1916. The period ends with the country’s first military coup of the twentieth century.

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Episodes

Episode 1The people in arms (1806–1820)
Episode 2The age of the caudillos (1820–1835)
Episode 3The Restorer (1835–1852)
Episode 4The formation of the national state (1852–1880)
Episode 5The Conservative Order (1880–1916)
Episode 6The will of the majority (1916–1930)
Episode 7The Infamous Decade (1930–1943)
Episode 8Peronism (1943–1955)
Episode 9The Peronist Resistance (1955–1966)
Episode 10Violent times (1966–1976)
Episode 11The military dictatorship (1976–1983)
Episode 12The return to democracy (1983–1990)
Episode 13From neoliberal hegemony to UNASUR (1990–2006)