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...Galtieri's Guilt
...have met Galtieri. Before me as I write is a handsome block of marble with the Argentine army's badge on it in metal and a little brass plate recording that it was given to General Sir John Hackett by Lieut. General Leopoldo Galtieri...
...weather in the South Atlantic worsened, both governments, for different reasons, saw a pressing need for success. Mrs. Thatcher, her position at home strengthened by an improving economic outlook, had gone all out for restored possession of the Falklands as a precondition to any further discussion of sovereignty. General Galtieri, with inflation rising at 147%, the peso at 11,300 to the dollar (official rate) and serious internal discontent, had so far whipped up national sentiment as to have pasted himself into a corner. There were others at hand, quite prepared to oust him if his venture failed. Among...
...that CERIEN, the Spanish acronym for the Center for Studies of International Relations and National Strategy in Buenos Aires, asked me to give lectures and hold some conferences. Galtieri, then commander in chief of the army, invited me to address the chiefs of staff and senior officers of all three services. He explained that the Argentine armed forces had been successfully engaged for several years in the suppression of terrorism. (It was hardly possible for me to tell him that the means they had used were almost universally condemned.) The Argentine military must now, Galtieri said, be turned back...
EVENTS IN ARGENTINA, too, seemed destined to shake the Administration from its simplistic vision of Latin America. The Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands and the U.S. vote for a U.N. resolution condemning Argentina's actions indicated that Washington might revise its rose-colored view of Leopolde Galtieri's military dictatorship. Argentina is the exemplar of the Administration's "totalitarian" but not "authoritarian" nation. Though Galtieri's junta never won popular support through open elections, though the government is notorious for its brutal treatment of guiltless political prisoners, and despite the regime's denial of free speech, free press...