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Leopoldo Galtieri

1926 - 2003

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Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (15 July 1926 – 12 January 2003) was an Argentine military officer who served as the de facto President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri ruled as a military dictator during the National Reorganization Process as leader of the Third Junta with Jorge Anaya and Basilio Lami Dozo. Galtieri was chief combat engineer of the Argentine Army and a patron of the 1976 military coup d'état which helped him become commander-in-chief of the army in 1980. Galtieri overthrew Roberto Viola, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leopoldo Galtieri is the 2,183rd most popular politician (down from 1,820th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 20th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Argentinean Politician.

Leopoldo Galtieri was a military dictator of Argentina in the 1980s. He is most famous for leading the 1982 invasion of the Falkland Islands (known as Las Malvinas in Argentina) and the 1983 invasion of the British-held islands of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

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Among politicians, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 2,183 out of 19,576. Before him are António Costa, Gyeongjong of Joseon, Alassane Ouattara, Elisa Bonaparte, Yakov Sverdlov, and Mike Pence. After him are Helenus, Antiochus II Theos, Jingtai Emperor, Gwanggaeto the Great, Tancred, Prince of Galilee, and Louis I, Duke of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 34. Before him are Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Paul Berg, Sydney Chaplin, Beji Caid Essebsi, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, and Paul Bocuse. After him are Henry Molaison, Ivan Illich, Valdas Adamkus, Allen Ginsberg, John Coltrane, and Ingeborg Bachmann. Among people deceased in 2003, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 22. Before him are Zoran Đinđić, Edward Said, Elia Kazan, Donald Davidson, Frederick Chapman Robbins, and Bertram Brockhouse. After him are Gianni Agnelli, Frank Sheeran, Walt Whitman Rostow, Robert Palmer, Robert Kardashian, and Luciano Berio.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 23 out of 1,154. Before him are Diego Simeone (1970), Omar Sívori (1935), Mario Kempes (1954), Carlos Menem (1930), Néstor Kirchner (1950), and Olivia Hussey (1951). After him are Gabriel Batistuta (1969), Helenio Herrera (1910), Guillermo Stábile (1905), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931), Mercedes Sosa (1935), and César Luis Menotti (1938).

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Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Leopoldo Galtieri ranks 8. Before him are Juan Perón (1895), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Carlos Menem (1930), and Néstor Kirchner (1950). After him are Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Richard Walther Darré (1895), Alberto Fernández (1959), Reynaldo Bignone (1928), Juan Manuel de Rosas (1793), and Fernando de la Rúa (1937).

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