president Isabel Perón, who succeeded her husband as president, was overthrown by a military coup in 1976. Coup of 24 March 1976 On March 24, 1976, a new military uprising overthrew president Isabel Perón and established a permanent dictatorship (a bureaucratic-authoritarian state), calling itself the "National Reorganization Process". The country was governed by a military junta made up of three members of the military, one for each faction. This junta appointed a functionary with the title "President" and with executive and legislative power. Similar to the previous dictatorship, the military junta passed a statute and two acts which were higher on the judicial hierarchy than the constitution. The National Reorganization Process consisted of four successive military juntas: 1976–1980: Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Eduardo Massera and Orlando Ramón Agosti 1980–1981: Roberto Eduardo Viola, Armando Lambruschini and Omar Graffigna 1981–1982: Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, Jorge Isaac Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo 1982–1983: Cristino Nicolaides, Rubén Franco and Augusto Jorge Hughes During these periods, the juntas appointed the military members Jorge Rafael Videla, Roberto Eduardo Viola, Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Reynaldo Benito Bignone, respectively, as de facto presidents. Among these, Bignone was the only one not belonging to the junta. The National Reorganization Process began the Dirty War, a type of state terrorism which massively violated human rights and led to the disappearance of tens of thousands of opponents. Internationally, the Argentinian dictatorship, along with the human rights violations, had the active support of the government of the United States (except during the Jimmy Carter administration) and was tolerated by the European countries, the Soviet Union and the Catholic Church, without whose inaction it would have been difficult for the dictatorship to sustain itself. Also, during that time, military dictatorships were established in all the countries in the Southern Cone of South America (Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Perú and Uruguay) with the support from the US. These countries, along with the US, jointly coordinated the repression, by means of an international terrorist organization called Operation Condor. In economic matters, the dictatorship formally handed over the Ministry of the Economy to the most conservative business associations which promoted economic policies which were openly de-industrialist and neoliberal, and with a maximum expansion of the foreign debt. In 1982, the military government entered into the Falklands War against the United Kingdom in an event of which the causes continue to be unclear. The defeat inflicted in