In the following weeks, statements from Montoneros flooded the media. Among other things, they claimed their actions were a response to the executions of twenty-seven Peronist militants who took part in an unsuccessful coup d'état in 1956. However, Aramburu's murder and the coldness with which it was carried out shook Argentine society to its core. Most of the country respected Aramburu as he had been a voice for the return of democracy at a time when the military was still unwilling to allow free elections.