Former Argentine dictator Videla dead at 87: media

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Former Argentine dictator Videla dead at 87: media

BUENOS AIRES | Fri May 17, 2013 9:07am EDT

(Reuters) - Jorge Rafael Videla, an austere former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest days of its Dirty War dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.

Local media reported he died of natural causes while serving a sentence for human right crimes.

(Reporting by Hugh Bronstein; Editing by Eric Beech)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/17/us-argentina-dictator-idUSBRE94G0F020130517

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1. ‘A despicable being has left this world,’ Carlotto

The head of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights association, Estela de Carlotto, came on stage today after the death of dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was revealed.

“A despicable being has left this world,” she stressed, adding “history will assess the genocide and the disgrace of the civic and military dictatorship he commanded and which he never regretted.”

“He was already judged and condemned here,” De Carlotto told a radio show, but although he was a Catholic, “he will not go to heaven” because “no matter what the man says on Earth, God will speak differently.” “There are good men and bad men. He was a bad man,” she concluded.

Short article, no more at link:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/131276/%E2%80%98a-despicable-being-has-left-this-world%E2%80%99-carlotto

[Judi Lynn]

2. Estela de Carlotto couldn't be more correct. She knows who this guy was.

After a lifetime of feeding upon, reveling in the suffering of good people, he has withdrawn.

He should be glad to reunite with his multitude of torturers, sadists, brutal bullies, barely human henchmen, and murderers, as they relive their glory days.

They did their right-wing world proud. They had power and they abused it. They always do. Weak. Can't help themselves. No inner strength.

The world already is getting healthier, however, just because this right-wing pompous ass is gone.

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Videla and Pinochet moment of right-wing mutual adoration.[/center]