Leopoldo Galtieri; Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, a failed dictator, died on January 12th, aged 76.(Obituary)

The Economist (US) | January 18, 2003 | Copyright

Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri, a failed dictator, died on January 12th, aged 76

THE dictatorship of General Leopoldo Galtieri lasted only eight months, one of the shortest in the murky annals of repression. He might have been forgiven by at least some of his fellow Argentines for his ruthlessness, but not for his stupidity. Laurence Peter, a Canadian academic, made a study of stupid people in positions of power. In "The Peter Principle", published in 1969, he came up with the now much-quoted aphorism, "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of ...

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