Juan Lombardo

Juan Lombardo

Juan José Lombardo (19 March 1927 – 26 November 2019) was an Argentine vice admiral imprisoned for crimes against humanity. He was the commander-in-chief of the South Atlantic Theatre of Operations during the 1982 Falklands War. He was also the mastermind of the Argentine invasion of the Falklands. Lombardo was born in Salto, Buenos Aires in March 1927.[1]

Trial

In 2010, he was put under house arrest for crimes against humanity committed in Argentina during the National Reorganization Process.[2]^[incomplete short citation] He was later one of the 63 accused of such crimes during the dictatorship in a series of trial known as the "ESMA mega-trial".

In February 2016, he received a third sentence of life imprisonment.[3][4]

He died in November 2019, two weeks after being admitted to the Hospital Naval in Buenos Aires. Lombardo was 92 years old.[5]

See also

• Argentine naval forces in the Falklands War

Footnotes

1. El doble ultraje de Malvinas Archived 2010-01-05 at the Wayback Machine by Pedro Pesatti (in Spanish)
2. Irán a juicio oral 15 acusados de crímenes de lesa humanidad (in Spanish)
3. "Mar del Plata: comienzan los alegatos en el juicio Base Naval" [Mar del Plata: hearings begin in the Naval Base trial]. Infojus Noticias (National Juridical News Agency) (in Spanish). 9 December 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
4. "Causa Base Naval: condenaron a 12 represores; nueve de ellos a prisión perpetua" [Naval Base trial: 12 sentenced; 9 of them to life imprisonment]. Mdphoy.com (in Spanish). 25 February 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
5. Fern, Por; de 2019, o Morales 26 de noviembre (26 November 2019). "Murió el oficial que diagramó el desembarco en la guerra de Malvinas y que luego fue condenado por delitos de lesa humanidad". Infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-28.