On the 7th of january in 1919, the "Semana Trágica" began in Argentina when police attacked striking metalworkers in Buenos Aires, killing five, after workers set the police chief's car on fire. The city was quickly placed under martial law.
The "Semana Trágica" (Tragic Week in English, not to be confused with the Spanish Tragic Week) was the violent supression of a general workers' uprising, beginning with the attack on January 7th. In addition to the actions of the police and military, right-wing vigilantes launched pogroms against the city's Jews, many of whom were not involved, in order to suppress the rebellion.
The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal works, an English Argentine-owned plant in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. On January 7th, workers overturned and set fire to the car of the police chief Elpidio González. Militant workers also shot and killed the commander of the Army detachment protecting González. Following this, police attacked, killing five workers and wounding twenty more.
On the same day, maritime workers of the port of Buenos Aires voted in favor of a general strike for better hours and wages. After the police attack at Vasena, a waterfront strike began: all ship movements, and all loading and unloading, came to a halt.
Rioting soon spread throughout Buenos Aires, and workers battled with both state and right-wing paramilitary forces. Police utilized members of the far-right Argentine "Patriotic League", who targeted the city's working class Russian Jewish population, which they associated with the rebellion, beating and murdering many uninvolved civilians.
On the 11th, the city was placed under martial law, and the military restored control over the city over the next several days. Estimates of the death toll range from between 141 to over 700. The United States embassy reported that 1,500 people were killed in total, "mostly Russians and generally Jews"
La Semana Trágica - el historiador
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Just finished New Vegas. The ending is a bit spoiled by the gameplay - boss fights do not work well in Bethesda's engine, and having to cheese the crap out of the final guy because he's a bullet sponge that can one shot both me and my companion is lame, and then you have a scene that starts with five guys all pointing guns at you who will evaporate you almost as quickly while your allied robots stand uselessly behind them instead of instantly blowing your enemies away with shoulder mounted rockets because they're stuck updating Windows or some shit.
Anyway good game.
A New Vegas remaster will never happen, but I so badly want it to, because being able to play such a well-written game even in Bethesda's modern engines would be so much fun. Update the combat (even if it was on par with Fallout 4 I would be satisfied), upgrade the graphics, especially character models, and add in more content on the legion side, and it would be the perfect version of New Vegas
Would a New Vegas visual novel be feasible? Re-work the narrative so you can do it graphic novel style, which I think would still allow you to hit all the most important character and story beats, but be much easier for an indy team to manage than building a whole ass open world game engine?
Afa legion content; I've never particularly liked the idea of a playable legion, and I get why the devs left it for last. I could see some interesting stories where you interact with the downtrodden in the legion, and then contrast that with the more privileged, with the end result being the player initiating or participating in a revolt, a schism, or a civil war based on how they go through the story. Focus on showing how fascism is inherently self-cannibalizing and unsustainable instead of any kind of ending that would be satisfying to fascist players. Like the civil war and the schism both leave the legion severely depleted and vulnerable to the other powers, while the revolt has ends up fighting against both the legion militarily, and NCR soft power that sees an opportunity to extend it's reach in to the Legion's territory. Maybe make the Followers of the Apocalypse prominent in the Revolt story as they are offering underground education and support to the revolutionaries, and maybe have some allies in the officer corps who are disgusted by the legions excesses or just see the writing on the wall and know it will collapse unless there is drastic change towards a more stable form of society.