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who forced the surrender of the

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. Following the Argentine defeat in the

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, he was appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position he held until his retirement in 1983. In 1984, Büsser published the book ''Operación Rosario'', a detailed account of the Argentine landings on the Falklands, and, in 1987, ''Malvinas, la guerra inconclusa'', an overall analysis of the conflict. Büsser died of a heart attack in September 2012. He had been under

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since 2009, for alleged

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s committed in the

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area during the 1970s dictatorship.

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