Nicanor Costa Méndez
Nicanor Costa Méndez (October 30, 1922 – August 3, 1992) was an Argentine diplomat.
Costa Méndez was born into a privileged background in
Costa Méndez served as the Argentine ambassador to
Costa Méndez returned to the Foreign Ministry under a later dictator, Gen.
During meetings at the time of the United Nations Security Council and the Organization of American States, Costa Méndez depicted United States support for Britain in the Falklands War as a "betrayal to the rest of the Americas," and following Argentine surrender on June 14, Galtieri and his Foreign Minister were removed.[1]
Costa Méndez's duplicity in his capacity as both the nation's chief diplomat and the junta's leading civilian adviser was highlighted by a local, 1983 official board of inquiry. The report documented that Costa Méndez had assured Galtieri that the United States would remain neutral in the event of war, despite an explicit message to the contrary from the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig (by then, the British Royal Navy was advancing toward the islands).[1]
In popular culture
Costa Méndez was portrayed by Vernon Dobtcheff in the 2002 BBC production of Ian Curteis's controversial The Falklands Play.
References
- ^ a b c d e New York Times (3 August 1992)
- ^ "Nicanor Costa Méndez", Clarín (31 March 2002) (in Spanish). Archived 2015-11-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Caught in the Fallout, by Thomas A. Sanction: Time (14 June 1982)
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