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United Officers Group

political organization, Argentina

Also known as: GOU, Grupo de Oficiales Unidos

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role of Perón

In Juan Perón: Early life and career
…of colonel, and joined the United Officers Group (Grupo de Oficiales Unidos; GOU), a secret military lodge that engineered the 1943 coup that overthrew the ineffective civilian government of Argentina. The military regimes of the following three years came increasingly under the influence of Perón, who had shrewdly requested for…
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