Kennedy brothers uprising

The Kennedy Brothers uprising, was a provincial insurrection in Argentina in 1932, in which a group of citizens led by three brothers of Irish descent, Eduardo, Roberto and Mario Kennedy took the city of La Paz, Entre Ríos, under a banner of defense of democracy, against the de facto military government of General José Félix Uriburu that had overthrown President of the Nation, Hipólito Yrigoyen, in a coup d'etat on September 6, 1930.

They were born in the "Los Algarrobos" ranch, located in the Estacas District of the La Paz Department in the northern Argentine province of Entre Ríos.

[2] Conservative forces in the military and society had backed the coup that had toppled the Radical Civic Union government of Hipolito Yrigoyen.

The Kennedy's had an ally in Lieutenant Gregorio Pomar, a military officer of democratic convictions (and former aide de camp of Irigoyen when he was president).

[2] The Governor of the province of Entre Ríos, Luis Etchevehere, followed orders from the national government to suppress the uprising by water, land and air.