The man you’re seeing is Hipólito Yrigoyen, and there’s a reason he’s being so widely celebrated now. And 100 years ago today, he become the country’s first president elected via a popular, secret vote. Though sanctioned under president Luis Saenz Peña in 1912, it nonetheless would pave the way for Yrigoyen to take the presidency four years later. And it was a moment Yrigoyen would have trouble repeating while in office. The Radical party itself was never the same after Yrigoyen.

Source: The Argentina Independent October 12, 2016 16:18 UTC