Juan José Valle

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Juan José Valle (executed in Buenos Aires, July 12, 1956) was an Argentine military who headed a rebellion against General Aramburu's dictatorship in 1956 (self-titled Revolución Libertadora), which had put an end the year before to Juan Perón's second term of presidency.

After Aramburu's coup against Perón, José Valle was dismissed in the frame of the anti-Peronist policies of the new regime. He then headed a rebellion on June 9, 1956, which quickly spread in the country, but was however blocked without any victims. But Aramburu's regime decided to make an example, by executing by firing-squad José Valle, alongside others rebels, on June 12, in the National Penitentiary of Buenos Aires (currently Las Heras Parc, where a plaque in his honor has been deposed).

This execution lead some sectors to name Aramburu's regime la Fusiladora (fusilar meaning to execute by a firing-squad). This execution marked a turn in Argentina's history of insurrections, which were not used to such massive retaliation. Between June 9 and June 12, 1956, 27 civils and militaries were executed, some illegally during the León Suárez massacre (related in Rodolfo Walsh's classic book, Operación Masacre). This event lead to Aramburu's subsequent assassination by the Montoneros, a left-wing Peronist group, in June 1970.