Carlos Eduardo del Valle Carrizo Salvadores is a retired Argentine Army middle-rank officer and former police chief of Jujuy Province in Argentina.
Carrizo Salvadores was born on 7 August 1942 in San Miguel de Tucumán. His parents resettled in Catamarca soon after his birth. As a child, he spent his formative years at Colegio Belgrano.[1]
Carlos Carrizo Salvadores enrolled in the Colegio Militar de la Nación in 1959 as an officer cadet and entered the Argentine Army in 1962, as an infantry second lieutenant. Before being promoted to captain in 1974, he passed paratroop qualification as a full lieutenant and was transferred to the 4th Airborne Infantry Brigade where he served as a company commander with the 17th Airborne Infantry Regiment.
Major Carlos Carrizo Salvadores distinguished himself in the Battle of Mount Longdon, during the Falklands War, when as Second-in-Command of the 7th Mechanized Infantry Regiment, he defended the Argentine stronghold overlooking Murrel River and later led a hastily formed platoon of conscripts from the remnants of his rifle companies to recover the lost positions on Wireless Ridge. He had earlier personally taken part in the construction of his command bunker, according to one of his soldiers, Private Guillermo Velez who was interviewed in the book 'Los Chicos de la Guerra: Hablan los soldados que estuvieron en Malvinas' (Daniel Kon, Editorial Galerna, 1982). While commanding his troops on Mount Longdon prior to the final battles in the ground war, he received the unwelcome news of his father's passing in Catamarca Province but kept this to himself, not wanting to elicit attention from his brigade commander and be given compassionate reassignment elsewhere or worse still, sent back to Argentina. [2]
During the battle for Mount Longdon and Wireless Ridge, the attacking British Paratroopers had to several times take part in close quarter combat and fight off counterattacks, taking heavy casualties in the process in what is still regarded as the bloodiest British ground action since the Korean War. Major Carrizo Salvadores had proven reluctant to abandon the feature and only did so only when the attacking British Paratroopers got within 100 metres from his command bunker[3] and after a near from a MILAN anti-tank missile.[4]