Argentine
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general who served as minister and secretary of state, and one of the leaders of the Revolution 43.
Biography
Being captain he led, as second Lieutenant Colonel Héctor Benigno Varela, military repression against strikers Patagonia in 1921, known as the Patagonia tragic. The historian
Osvaldo Bayer
Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the Natio ...
argues that executions ordered but he has refused.''De a uno'', Pg. 12, March 4, 2007 /ref>
In 1943 he was head of the military garrison of Campo de Mayo, the largest in the country. He was one of the leaders of the military coup that originated June 4 Revolution of the 43 in which he served as Minister of Justice and Public Instruction in 1943, under the presidency of General
Pedro Pablo Ramirez
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In 1959, during the presidency of Arturo Frondizi, he served as Secretary of War, in the Ministry of Defense. In that role, he clashed with the commander-in-chief of the Army, Lieutenant General Carlos Toranzo Montero, who wanted to form a politicized and strongly anti-Peronist army, generating a serious political crisis. Toranzo Montero was dismissed from his position by Anaya, but he resisted the measure, entrenching himself with 1,200 men in the School of Mechanics, and reinstating himself in the position in which he had been laid off. The garrisons of Córdoba and
Mar del Plata
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declared their adherence to the army of Toranzo Montero.
President Frondizi then ordered a tank attack against the rebel headquarters. However, a few minutes before the attack began, Frondizi suspended the order and demanded that Major General Anaya resign. Replaced by General Rodolfo Larcher, his first measure was to reinstate Toranzo Montero as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. From that moment, at the age of 70, Anaya withdrew from public life.
In 1972, he wrote the prologue to the book ''La conquista del Chaco'', by Alberto D. Scunio, published by the Círculo Militar. He died in 1986 at the age of 97.