Tag: Jorge Videla

• 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.

• Tuesday, March 1st 2011 - 02:46 UTC

  Argentine military dictators on trial for stealing hundreds of babies

  

  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.