Carlos Lacoste

{{short description|45th President of Argentina}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Carlos Lacoste | image = Valte. C. A. Lacoste.jpg | caption = Carlos Lacoste ({{circa|1978–1993}}) | office = President of Argentina | order = 45th | term_label = Interim | term_start = 11 December 1981 | term_end = 21 December 1981 | appointer = Military junta | vice_president = '' None '' | predecessor = Horacio Tomás Liendo (acting) | successor = Leopoldo Galtieri | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1929|2|2}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2004|6|24|1929|2|2}} | death_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | spouse = Hebe Angélica Aprile | party = | profession = Military | signature = Carlos Lacoste Firma.jpg }} '''Carlos Alberto Lacoste''' (2 February 1929 – 24 June 2004) was an Argentine naval officer and politician who briefly served as the interim President of Argentina in December 1981.

==Career== While serving as a vice-admiral in the Navy, Lacoste was influential in the organization of the 1978 FIFA World Cup, hosted by Argentina.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Magalhães |first=Livia |date=2020 |title=40 years after victory: disputing memories over the 1978 World Cup in Argentina |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=146709556&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |journal=Soccer & Society |volume=21 |issue=8 |pages=904–917 |doi=10.1080/14660970.2020.1793625 |via=EBSCOhost|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

In December 1981 the then head of state General Roberto Eduardo Viola was ousted in a ''coup d'état''. Lacoste served as interim President of Argentina from 11 to 22 December 1981, during a period of military rule. He was succeeded in the presidential office by Lieutenant General Leopoldo Galtieri. After the military government, he preserved his connections with football associations, becoming a South American representative in FIFA, and in 1986 he was assigned as Argentine supervisor in the drawing of that year's World Cup matches in Mexico, which was eventually won by Argentina. He died on 24 June 2004 at the age of 75.

==See also== * National Reorganization Process

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