caption branch predecessor successor birth_place president office battles birth_date term_start rank image article_title term_end name alma_mater
leopoldo . galtieri with general jofre during the falklands war argentine army sir rex hunt jeremy moore buenos aires leopoldo galtieri military and the south sandwich islands governor of the falkland islands , south georgia falklands war 3 april 1930 3 april 1982 brigadier general file : galtierimenendez.jpg mario benjamín menéndez
 14 june 1982 mario benjamin menéndez colegio militar de la nación
mario benjamín menéndez

mario benjamin menéndez -lrb- born april 3 , 1930 -rrb- was the argentine governor of the falklands during the 1982 argentine occupation of the islands .
he also served in the argentine army .
menéndez surrendered argentine forces to britain during the falklands war .
menéndez should not to be confused with his cousin , luciano benjamín menéndez , another argentine general of the dirty war .
both are nephews of benjamín andrés menéndez , an argentine general who led an unsuccessful putsch against peron in 1951 .
