1926- . Argentinian general, leading member
of the right-wing military junta that ordered
the seizure 1982 of the Falkland Islands
(Malvinas), a UK colony in the SW Atlantic
claimed by Argentina. He and his fellow junta
members were tried for abuse of human rights
and court-martialled for their conduct of the
war; he was sentenced to 12 years in prison
in 1986.