Editing Roberto Eduardo Viola (section)

===Economic policy===
Viola appointed [[Lorenzo Sigaut]] as finance minister, and it became clear that Sigaut were looking for ways to reverse some of the economic policies of Videla's minister [[José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz]]. Notably, Sigaut abandoned the sliding [[exchange rate]] mechanism and devalued the [[Argentine Peso|peso]], after boasting that "they who gamble on the [[dollar]], will lose". Argentines braced for a recession after the excesses of the ''sweet money'' years, which destabilized Viola's position.<ref name="El País">[http://www.elpais.com/articulo/economia/ARGENTINA/BANCO_INTERAMERICANO_DE_DESARROLLO/DESAPARECIDOS_Y_DICTADURA_MILITAR_/1976-1982/nueva/politica/economica/argentina/basa/modificacion/esquema/cambios/moneda/elpepieco/19810408elpepieco_11/Tes/ ''La nueva política económica argentina se basa en la modificación del esquema de cambios de la moneda. Según Lorenzo Sigaut, el nuevo ministro de Economía ''], El País, reproducción del artículo publicado el 8 de abril de 1981. {{in lang|es}}</ref>

Viola priorities were economic recovery and greater political freedom for Argentina. He intends to combat the problems of inflation, an overvalued peso, and the balance of payments by continuing the previous administration's policy of encouraging a [[liberal economy]] dominated by [[private enterprises]].<ref>https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/ROBERTO%20EDUARDO%20VIOLA%20-%20A%5B15499882%5D.pdf</ref>

Viola was also the victim of infighting within the [[armed forces]]. After being replaced as Navy chief, [[Eduardo Massera]] started looking for a political space to call his own, even enlisting the enforced and unpaid services of political prisoners held in concentration camps by the regime. The mainstream of the Junta's support was strongly opposed to Massera's designs and to any attempt to bring about more "[[economic populism|populist]]" economic policies.