Argentina's Former Military Dictator Videla Dies in Jail at 87

[Lucky Luciano]

Source: Bloomberg

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[dipsydoodle]

1. Link here : Argentina ex-military leader Jorge Rafael Videla dies.

Argentina's ex-military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has died aged 87 while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity, local media report.

He is said to have died of natural causes in prison.

The general was jailed in 2010 for the deaths of 31 dissidents during the 1976-83 military dictatorship, of which he was overall leader until 1981.

Up to 30,000 people were tortured and killed during this period, in a campaign known as the "Dirty War".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22570888

[Taverner]

2. Buh bye! Rot in hell, mf'er!

[Judi Lynn]

3. Maybe for old time's sake, his body should be thrown out of an airplane into the ocean

just the way his government threw living, conscious human leftists to their death during his glory days, with the explicit blessings of Henry Kissinger.

He was lucky he was never pregnant in prison, and forced to give birth, or given a forced C-Section, then chained to a line of other tortured prisoners before being thrown from an airplane while very much alive.

It will take forever before the world is clean again because of the unchecked violent, hate-filled excesses of the right-wing turned loose upon humanity with absolutely no restraint, no words of caution, no raised eyebrows from the power player nations whatsoever.

[center]

Videla enjoying a toast with powerful newspaper Clarín publisher, Ernestina Herrera. Her papers always whitewashed
the Dirty War, ALWAYS, and it's still in business today, whitewashing the right-wing daily. She was never brought to
justice for lying to the world's population daily about the atrocities and nightmares inflicted upon the human race by
the Dirty War.[/center]

[Judi Lynn]

4. Argentina’s Dapper State Terrorist

Argentina’s Dapper State Terrorist
March 15, 2013


From the Archive: As Argentina’s Dirty War killed some 30,000 people, including 150 Catholic priests, dictator Jorge Rafael Videla kept up good relations with Jorge Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, who admits the Church should have done more given the horrors, as described by Marta Gurvich in 1998.

By Marta Gurvich (Originally published Aug. 19, 1998)

Former Argentine president Jorge Rafael Videla, the dapper dictator who launched the so-called Dirty War in 1976, was arrested on June 9, 1998, for a particularly bizarre crime of state, one that rips at the heart of human relations.

Videla, known for his English-tailored suits and his ruthless counterinsurgency theories, stands accused of permitting — and concealing — a scheme to harvest infants from pregnant women who were kept alive in military prisons only long enough to give birth.

According to the charges, the babies were taken from the new mothers, sometimes by late-night Caesarean sections, and then distributed to military families or shipped to orphanages. After the babies were pulled away, the mothers were removed to another site for their executions.

Yet, after Videla’s arrest in 1998, Argentina was engulfed in a legal debate over whether Videla could be judged a second time for these grotesque kidnappings. After democracy was restored in Argentina, Videla was among the generals convicted of human rights crimes, including “disappearances,” tortures, murders and kidnappings.

More:
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/03/15/argentinas-dapper-state-terrorist/

[Warren Stupidity]

5. There is a group here who are hazing a sad. nt.

[Judi Lynn]

6. Yup, a hero has bitten the dust. Be even more indulgent with them!

They may not hold up, otherwise.

Sad day for sociopaths.

[Ken Burch]

9. Wanna bet our prez says "let's look forward, not back" when asked to comment?

[Judi Lynn]

10. He'd probably get a tear-stained "thank you" note from Kissinger, and company. n/t

[Ken Burch]

14. Are you sure It'd be TEARS leaving the stains?

[2ndAmForComputers]

7. Ooooo. PM with links, please?

[joshcryer]

12. I doubt there's even one DUer who supported this POS.

Just a sick generalization about critics of certain Latin American populists.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Democrats have always favored those who work to improve life

for the benefit of the masses, that's a given.

People who obsess over these populist leaders don't really have much in common with Democrats.

[Ken Burch]

8. May his victims find justice. May their families find peace.

As to the general, he will soon be nothing but dust...and a generation from now, children will look at statues of him on horseback(I assume they've been built)and ask "Who was he? And why did he deserve a statue?"

[geek tragedy]

11. Decades overdue. May the cries of his victims torment him for eternity. nt

[Judi Lynn]

13. Reagan and Argentina’s Dirty War

Reagan and Argentina’s Dirty War
May 17, 2013

Exclusive: The 87-year-old ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Videla died Friday in prison where he was serving sentences for grotesque human rights crimes in the 1970s and 1980s. But one of Videla’s key backers, the late President Ronald Reagan, continues to be honored by Americans, writes Robert Parry.

By Robert Parry

The death of ex-Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, a mastermind of the right-wing state terrorism that swept Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s, means that one more of Ronald Reagan’s old allies is gone from the scene.

Videla, who fancied himself a theoretician of anti-leftist repression, died in prison at age 87 after being convicted of a central role in the Dirty War that killed some 30,000 people and involved kidnapping the babies of “disappeared” women so they could be raised by military officers who were often implicated in the murders of the mothers.

The leaders of the Argentine junta also saw themselves as pioneers in the techniques of torture and psychological operations, sharing their lessons with other regional dictatorships. Indeed, the chilling word “disappeared” was coined in recognition of their novel tactic of abducting dissidents off the streets, torturing them and then murdering them in secret – sometimes accomplishing the task by chaining naked detainees together and pushing them from planes over the Atlantic Ocean.

With such clandestine methods, the dictatorship could leave the families in doubt while deflecting international criticism by suggesting that the “disappeared” might have traveled to faraway lands to live in luxury, thus combining abject terror with clever propaganda and disinformation.

More:
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/05/17/reagan-and-argentinas-dirty-war/

[Beacool]

15. Good riddance!!!!!

Rot in hell, say hello to your cohorts.