[1] The 1966 deposal of President Arturo Illia (of the UCR) by General Juan Carlos Onganía dissolved the Argentine Congress and forced Armendáriz to return to his medical practice.

[2] Two out of three residents in the province live in the Greater Buenos Aires area, a quiltwork of largely working-class suburbs long aligned with Perón's populist Justicialist Party.

[1] Polls gave neither man an edge, and on election day, October 30, as Argentines gathered in a then-record turnout, the Justicialist candidate, Herminio Iglesias, threw a (premature) "victory rally" in which a coffin draped in the UCR colors was burned before the television cameras.

The macabre scene ignited the electorate's bitter memories of Isabel Perón's chaotic 1974-76 presidency and helped result in a solid victory for both Alfonsín and Armendáriz.

[4] Inheriting a province reeling from the effects of a national economic crisis and years of police and other legal abuses, Governor Armendáriz undertook the reform of the provincial judicial system while acting decisively to confront growing crime rates.

[5] These and other works could not overcome voters' growing disapproval of President Alfonsín's policy of wage freezes and credit controls, which the opposition Justicialist Party blamed for sliding living standards.

[6] Anti-incumbent sentiment and fallout from the 1986 indictment of Armendáriz's son-in-law, José Luis Nicora, for embezzlement while Mayor of Magdalena[7] cost his party the governorship in the September 1987 election.

Entrusted with the post in March 1988, Armendáriz was able to restore stability to the perennially mismanaged PAMI by September, dissolving the crisis commission in favor of a panel presided by Argentina's two leading senior citizens' advocacy groups.