Later Life, Further Accusations, and Death
Galtieri was heavily blamed for Argentina's humiliating defeat in the Falklands War. He lived reclusively in a modest Buenos Aires neighbourhood and refused to give interviews to journalists.
In July 2002 new civil charges were brought concerning the kidnapping of children and disappearance of 18 leftist sympathizers in the late 1970s (while Galtieri was commander of the Second Army Corps), and the disappearance or death of three Spanish citizens at about the same time. Galtieri was placed under house-arrest. He underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer on 16 August 2002 at a hospital in Buenos Aires. He died there of a heart attack at the age of 76.
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