1973 Uruguayan coup d'état

1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
	Part of the Operation Condor and the Cold War
	; Protesters marching against the dictatorship in 1973
Date	27 June 1973
Location	Montevideo, Uruguay
Result	Coup successful Dissolution of General Assembly of Uruguay; Juan María Bordaberry becomes President and dictator; Civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay assumed power;
Belligerents
Uruguayan Government; Uruguayan Armed Forces Uruguayan Army; Uruguayan Navy; Uruguayan Air Force; Uruguayan Police;	Broad Front; Tupamaros; National Confederation of Workers (CNT); Supported by:; Cuba
Commanders and leaders
Juan María Bordaberry; Néstor Bolentini; Antonio Francese; Walter Ravenna	Líber Seregni; Raúl Sendic; Eleuterio Fernández; Héctor Amodio Pérez; Henry Engler; Mauricio Rosencof

The 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état took place in Uruguay on 27 June 1973 and marked the beginning of the civic-military dictatorship which lasted until 1985.

President Juan María Bordaberry closed parliament and ruled with the assistance of a junta of military generals. The official reason was to crush the Tupamaros, a Marxist urban guerrilla movement. The communist trade union federations called a general strike and occupation of factories. The strike lasted just over two weeks. It ended with most of the trade union leaders in jail, dead, or exiled to Argentina. As part of the coup all associations including trade unions were declared illegal and banned; the Constitution of Uruguay of 1967 was practically voided.