Argentine general and dictator, de facto President of Argentina from 1981 to 1982
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Galtieri and the second or maternal family name is Castelli.
Lieutenant General
Leopoldo Galtieri
Galtieri in 1981.
President de facto of Argentina
In office 22 December 1981 – 18 June 1982
Appointed by
Military junta
Vice President
None
Preceded by
Carlos Lacoste (interim)
Succeeded by
Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean (interim)
Personal details
Born
(1926-07-15)15 July 1926 Caseros, Argentina[1]
Died
12 January 2003(2003-01-12) (aged 76) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse
Lucía Noemí Gentili
(m. 1949)
Children
3
Alma mater
Colegio Militar de la Nación
Profession
Military
Signature
Military service
Allegiance
Argentina
Branch/service
Argentine Army
Years of service
1944–1982
Rank
(Pre-1991 epaulette) Lieutenant General
Battles/wars
Falklands War
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (Spanish pronunciation:[leoˈpoldofoɾtuˈnatoɣalˈtjeɾikasˈteli]; 15 July 1926 – 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general who served as President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri exercised his control over Argentina as a military ruler during the National Reorganization Process as leader of the Third Junta with Jorge Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo.[2]
Galtieri was chief combat engineer of the Argentine Army and a supporter of the 1976 military coup d'état which helped him become commander-in-chief of the army in 1980. Galtieri overthrew Roberto Viola and was appointed President and established Argentina as a strong Cold War ally of NATO and the United States, while introducing fiscally conservative economic reforms, and increasing Argentine covert support for the anti-communist Contras guerrillas during the Nicaraguan civil war. In domestic policy, General Galtieri continued the Dirty War with the 601 Intelligence Battalion death squad reporting directly to him.[3]
Galtieri's declining popularity due to his human rights abuses and the worsening economic stagnation caused him to order an invasion of the Falkland Islands in April 1982. Galtieri was removed from power after Argentina’s defeat by the British armed forces in the Falklands War in June, which led to the restoration of democracy and, in 1986, his court martial prosecution and conviction for war crimes and other offenses. Galtieri was pardoned by Carlos Menem in 1989 and lived in obscurity until his arrest for new charges shortly before his death in 2003.
^Argentina's Military Dictatorship Archived 11 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
^Dark Years: Murió Galtieri, el general que llevó al país a la guerra
^Evans, Michael. "Argentina: Secret U.S. Documents Declassified on Dirty War Atrocities". www.gwu.edu.
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