Raul Alfonsin
Raul Ricardo Alfonsin Foulkes (born 13 March 1927) is an Argentine politician, who was the President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 9 July 1989.
After the collapse of the military junta of the National Reorganization Process in 1983 (among other reasons due to the disastrous Falklands War , new presidential elections were held. Alfonsin, who had been elected leader of the party in July that year, became president.
Alfonsin's government endured the rebellion of Army factions, the most notable of them during the long weekend of Easter in 1987, when a group identified as Carapintadas and led by Army Major Aldo Rico took position in the Army's grounds of Campo de Mayo. After negotiating with the rebels, Alfonsin returned to the Casa Rosada, where an anxious population was waiting for news, and he uttered a then-famous sentence, "La casa esta en orden" ("The house is in order"), to signify the end of the crisis.
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