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Montevideo, April 19th 2025 - 14:53 UTC

Tag: Jorge Videla

  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Argentine gov't releases “full history” video highlighting pre-coup terrorism in the 1970s

    “History must be told in full or it becomes an instrument of political manipulation,” Milei's Government argued

    The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei Monday released a video on social media saying March 24, 2025, should be the “Day of Complete Memory” on the 49th anniversary of the Military Junta uprising headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafel Videla, marking the beginning of the self-appointed National Reorganization Process which ended up in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War and a return to democratic rule the following year.

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

    Argentina declassifies documents on disappearance of Swedish teenager in 1977

    The Argentine Junta never admitted that a young naval officer Alfredo Astiz, later imprisoned for that crime and other similar actions, was involved.

    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.

  • Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 02:46 UTC

    Argentine military dictators on trial for stealing hundreds of babies

    An estimated 400 babies were stolen under dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone and Jorge Videla

    Two former Argentine dictators appeared in court Monday on charges of kidnapping hundreds of babies seized from political prisoners, minutes after birth. Ex rulers Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone alongside with six other former military officers are involved in the court case that is expected to last until the end of the year.