promoted a strong centralized government and qualified suffrage. Dorrego opposed the government of the unitarian Bernardino Rivadavia, who was appointed as the first president of Argentina, and voiced his criticism in the newspaper "El Tribuno". Resisted by all the provinces, Rivadavia resigned as president, and vice president Vicente López y Planes resigned as well. No longer having a national head of state, the legislature appointed Dorrego as governor of the Buenos Aires province. He took measures to support the poor, promote a federal organization of the country, and ended the Argentine–Brazilian War. The Argentine troops were discontented with Dorrego because he accepted the conditions imposed by the British diplomacy despite their military victories in the conflict. Encouraged by the Unitarian party, Juan Lavalle led a coup against Dorrego on 1 December 1828. Dorrego left the city and organized his forces in the countryside. He was defeated, and then executed by Lavalle. Lavalle closed the legislature and began a period of political violence against the Federals, but he was defeated and forced to resign by Juan Manuel de Rosas, who restored the institutions that existed before Lavalle's coup. See also Argentine Civil War Manuel Dorrego national institute References Bibliography 1787 births 1828 deaths Leaders ousted by a coup Governors of Buenos Aires Province Executed politicians Foreign ministers of Argentina Argentine military personnel killed in the Argentine Civil War People from Buenos Aires People of the Argentine War of Independence People executed by Argentina by firing squad Argentine people of Portuguese descent Extrajudicial killings Federales (Argentina) Burials at La Recoleta Cemetery