this war sparked the fall of the third military junta and, a few months later, the fourth junta called elections for October 30, 1983. Raúl Alfonsín of the Radical Civic Union won the elections and assumed power on December 10, 1983. The military leaders were tried and convicted, many of them being imprisoned after long and complex processes. The "National Reorganization Process" was the last dictatorship. Even though there were various military insurrections between 1987 and 1990, called the "Carapintadas", none of them succeeded in toppling the democratic government. Considerations The coups d'état in Argentina generated a series of specific political-judicial problems: The "de facto government doctrine" of the Supreme Court; The validity and fate of the so-called "decree laws" and other regulations passed by the military governments, once the dictatorships had ended; The punishment of those involved in the coups. It is also possible to see an escalation in the repressive violence and a decline in respect for legal norms in each of the coups. In particular, whereas the first four coups d'état (1930, 1943, 1955, 1962) were defined as "provisional governments" and acted with the intention of calling democratic elections within a short time period, the two last coups (1966 and 1976) brought to power military dictatorships which were permanent and adhered to the idea of the bureaucratic-authoritarian state, described by Guillermo O'Donnell. An important element of the coups d'état in Argentina is regarding the economic policies and the attitude of the big world powers towards these policies. Firstly, the economic teams formed by the military government tended to be made of the same figures, mainly coming from the conservative-liberal sections of society, leading some to say that the Armed Forces behaved as a political party of the upper classes. Secondly, in almost all the coups, the hegemonic world powers participated directly, either in the coup itself or in the protection of those involved in the coup afterwards. The coups that took place in Argentina, especially those starting from the 1960s, were part of a widespread trend in the Latin America in which there were many military coups, most of which were supported or promoted by the United States through the operations of the School of the Americas, located in Panama and through the US doctrine of National Security. During the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution, the doctrine of de facto governments and methods of preventing them