It was 40 years ago, as Argentina was plunging into one of Latin America’s bloodiest dictatorships, that Eduardo Costantini first proved he had an eye for a knockout deal. Having returned penniless to Buenos Aires, his savings spent on studying abroad, the property baron borrowed some mone
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