José Félix Uriburu

José Félix Benito Uriburu y Uriburu ( born July 20, 1868 in Salta, † April 29, 1932 in Paris) was an Argentine general. After a military coup, he was de facto September 8, 1930 to February 20, 1932 to the President of Argentina.

Life

José Félix Uriburu was the nephew of José Evaristo Uriburu, who was from 1895 to 1898 the Argentine president. In 1930, he led the involvement of the right-wing Argentine League party Patriótica Argentina to a military coup against the incumbent president Hipólito Yrigoyen. With the success of this coup began in Argentina Decada infamous ( German: infamous decade ).