Editing Juan Perón (section)

===Return, third term and death===
In 1973, Perón was finally allowed to return to Argentina. He arrived on a plane paid for by a friend of López Rega, [[Licio Gelli]], Italian fascist leader of Masonic lodge [[Propaganda Due]], which later became involved in several scandals and human rights violations in Italy and South America. 

Perón was barred from participating in that year's presidential election, so his personal delegate, the nominally leftist Héctor J. Cámpora, ran in his place and won. Socialist presidents Salvador Allende of Chile]l and Oswaldo Dorticós of Cuba attended the inauguration ceremony. President Cámpora would predictably resign two months later, paving the way for Perón to return to power after 18 years. His wife Isabel would assume the Vice-Presidency and his loyal secretary José López Rega was appointed Minister of Social Welfare.

However, Perón's long-awaited return was not the socialist utopia that Montoneros and the Peronist left, in general, were expecting. They were mercilessly targeted, with Perón's implicit approval, by López Rega's Triple A [[death squad]], reaching its climax during an incident known as the [[Ezeiza Massacre]] in which right-wing Peronist snipers opened fire on a mass of left-wing Peronists that had gathered near Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires to greet their leader, killing 13 people. At least 1,122 people were murdered by the Triple A, and death threats forced many prominent left-wing Peronist to leave the country.

During the 1974 May Day rally at Plaza de Mayo, Perón confirmed that his leftist revolutionary enthusiasm was just a farce by expelling the Montoneros from the plaza and calling them "stupid". Moreover, his May 1974 meeting with Chilean dictator [[Augusto Pinochet]] (despite Perón's admiration for Salvador Allende and condemnation of the 1973 Chilean military coup), has been considered the beginning of [[Operation Condor]]. A few months after the meeting, General Carlos Prats, former commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and Minister under Allende, was assassinated with his wife in Argentina.

In June 1974, Perón caught pneumonia after visiting his old friend, Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner and later suffered a heart attack. Isabel Perón was sworn-in as interim President, but Juan never recovered and died on July 1.

Isabel Perón's misgovernment, José López Rega's [[state terrorism]], and the Montoneros' underground activities against the increasingly oppressive regime would lead to the US-backed 1976 military coup, which established the [[National Reorganization Process]] headed by [[Jorge Rafael Videla]], considered to be the most brutal and repressive junta in the history of Argentina.

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