First female president of Argentina from 1974 to 1976
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The first woman to serve as president of a country took office not by election but by death — her husband's — and left two years later in a military coup, her tenure ending in arrest warrants for forced disappearance.
María Estela Martínez Cartas, born 4 February 1931, became the third wife of Argentine president Juan Perón and served as both vice president and first lady during his third term from 1973 to 1974. When he died in office in 1974, she assumed the presidency and led for nearly two years, her politics aligned with right-wing Peronism and what observers called corporate neo-fascism. The military seized control in 1976, placing her under house arrest for five years before exiling her to Spain in 1981. She attended Raúl Alfonsín's inauguration after democracy returned in 1983 and remained nominal he…
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