Argentine Statesman. He served as the 41st President of Argentina from July 1, 1982 to December 10, 1983. He joined the military at the age of nineteen and later studied at both the leading military school in Argentina and in Spain. He was appointed the head of the VI Infantry regiment in 1964. In December of 1975, he was appointed the head of the National Military College and a year later, was part of the group of military officials that overthrew President Isabel Martinez de Peron. He went on to serve in various military positions until retiring from the army in 1981. He was named president by the ruling military junta after the 1982 disastrous Falkland Islands War. He served in this position for about a year before he handed over power to newly-elected President Raul Alfonsin after the first democratic elections in seven years. Before leaving office, he granted amnesty to all officials of the military dictatorship that had ruled since 1976. In 1985, he was acquitted by the Trial of the Juntas. In 2003, the amnesty was overturned and the military was ordered to bring new charges against him and two other generals for their role in the "Dirty War" that was imposed by the military government in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was placed under house arrest in 2006 and later was taken into custody at a military base near the capital of Buenos Aires. He was later sentenced to life in prison for crimes that included murder, torture, abduction, and along with another coup leader, Jorge Rafael Videla, the theft of babies born to political prisoners. In 2016, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in Operation Condor, in which several South American military regimes collaborated to track down and kill leftist dissidents. He also received another prison sentence a year later for abuses that took place during his leadership of the National Military College from 1975-76. He passed away of heart failure at a military hospital.