Tag: Argentina Military Junta

• Wednesday, December 12th 2018 - 07:14 UTC

  Jail sentences for ex Ford executives for collaborating with Argentine military regime

  

  Two former Ford executives in Argentina have been given long jail sentences for collaborating with the country's brutal military regime in 1976-83. Factory manager Pedro Muller was sentenced to 10 years and ex-security chief Hector Sibilla given 12 years.

• Thursday, November 30th 2017 - 09:32 UTC

  Argentina: “Angel of Death” and 28 ex military sentenced to life in prison for crimes during dictatorship

  

  A former navy captain known as the ”Angel of Death'' was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison for human rights violations committed at a notorious clandestine detention and torture center during Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship.

• Saturday, May 28th 2016 - 08:04 UTC

  Operation Condor condemns Argentine ex dictator and 14 top military officers

  

  Former Argentine dictator Reynaldo Bignone and 14 other ex-military officials were found guilty by an Argentine court on Friday of conspiring to kidnap and assassinate leftist dissidents as part of the Operation Condor program. Bignone, 88, the highest ranking figure on trial, was sentenced to 20 years in jail. Fourteen of the remaining 16 defendants got eight to 25 years behind bars. Two were found not guilty.

• Saturday, March 19th 2016 - 05:41 UTC

  Praise for Obama's decision to declassify documents from the Argentine dictatorship

  

  There is no doubt about the participation of the United States in Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 military dictatorship, Human Rights Secretary Claudio Avruj said in Buenos Aires following the news that Washington announced it will declassify military and intelligence files from the Dirty War period ahead of Barack Obama’s visit to the country.

• Friday, March 18th 2016 - 05:40 UTC

  Obama should fully reveal documents from Argentina's 1976/1983 dictatorship and the US role, says NYT

  

  The New York Times published on Thursday an editorial in which the newspaper referred to president Barack Obama’s visit to Argentina next week and the role played by the United States in the country’s 1976-1983 civil-military dictatorship, saying the president of that country “should make a pledge that Washington will more fully reveal its role in a dark chapter of Argentine history.”

• Friday, August 28th 2015 - 06:17 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church in the dock over snatching of babies during military dictatorship

  

  High-ranking officials of the Argentine Catholic Church were implicated in the appropriation of babies from detainees who were held in Cordoba province’s La Perla clandestine concentration camp during the last military dictatorship, journalist and writer Horacio Verbitsky, the head of the CELS human rights group, testified.

• Saturday, February 28th 2015 - 07:54 UTC

  Prosecutor of Argentine military junta in 1985 historic trial has died

  

  Former public prosecutor Julio Cesar Strassera, who accused Argentina’s military leadership that conducted the bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship, died in Buenos Aires at 81 years old of a “severe intestinal infection.”

• Saturday, February 21st 2015 - 04:40 UTC

  US top news figure admits he never was in the Falklands during the 1982 war

  

  Another United States prominent TV news figure has been accused of exaggerating his exploits while covering combat situations: this time it's Fox News' Bill O'Reilly and refers to his alleged coverage of the Falklands' war in 1982.

• Tuesday, February 10th 2015 - 05:56 UTC

  Argentina declassifies documents on disappearance of Swedish teenager in 1977

  

  Argentina's foreign ministry is releasing 'secret documents' related to the kidnapping and disappearance of the Swedish teenager Dagmar Hagelin in 1977 during the last military dictatorship, and which at the time crated a longstanding serious diplomatic rift between the two countries.

• Wednesday, August 6th 2014 - 08:28 UTC

  Plaza de Mayo Grand-mothers head finally gets to know her kidnapped grandson born in captivity

  

  The 83-year-old head of the Argentine human rights movement which works to track down babies stolen by the country's brutal 1976-83 military dictatorship has found her grandson after a 35-year search, a relative said on Tuesday.