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Roberto Eduardo Viola
Roberto Eduardo Viola Prevedini was a military officer who briefly served as interim president of Argentina from March 29 to December 11, 1981 during a period of military rule.
Viola appointed Lorenzo Sigaut as finance minister, and it became clear that Sigaut (and his protege Domingo Cavallo) were looking for ways to reverse some of the economic policies of Videla's minister Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz. Notably, Sigaut abandoned the sliding exchange rate mechanism and devalued the peso, after boasting that "they who gamble on the dollar, will lose". Argentines braced for a recession after the excesses of the ''plata ...
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