Despite Manuel Carles seizes power on Christmas, 1935, his support amongst the general populace of Argentina isn’t spectacular. With the Conservative government, with the backing of the army still controlling most of the country, Carles and the ARA only holds effectively the Greater Buenos Aires region. Efforts throughout February to send expeditions further inland roughly correspond to the increase in support for the Conservative Government, especially as Rosario, Mendoza, Cordoba and Riujo have all declared loyalty to the Conservative Government.

Triggering Article 6, declaring himself capable of using force to bring the traitors to the Argentine Republic into the fold, Carles establishes a gendarmerie force which would support his ARA marines in quickly striking the rebelling provinces before the Army could mount a resistance. However, as the Argentine Constitution has served its purpose, the dictator then immediately suspends the constitution, and begin mass crackdowns in Greater Buenos Aires.

By March, protesters have risen up in Buenos Aires against Carles’ suspension of the constitution, but the Carles Gendarmerie force have also managed to retake Rosario. Disaster strikes however, when the ARA loses a large portion of its fleet in the Battle of Las Malvinas. With the navy’s prestige taking a tremendous hit, the same group who are Carles’ main proponents, his position is now weaker than ever.

On the Chilean side, the Battle of Las Malvinas meant nothing short of an act of war. With Internationale forces now having arrived, and any form of naval supremacy decidedly lost, they are now acting on borrowed time. Any future wars will be done without foreign support, while as time goes on Argentina will only consolidate. A readily available casus belli is there…

On the 26th of March, 1936, the Syndicalist Republic of Chile declares war on the Argentine Republic