News Source: Truthout
| 21 days ago
A federal court in Buenos Aires on October 23 convicted two former army officials - Jorge Olivera Rovere and Jose Menendez - to life sentences on Friday, for crimes committed during Argentina's "Dirty War." Rovere, 83, was commander of the city of...
News Source: Press TV
| 21 days ago
Bignone, 81, is accused of kidnapping and torturing 56 people who were held in secret detention centers at the Campo de Mayo military base, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, during Argentina's "dirty war" against the leftists. In 1983, after seven...
News Source: CNN
| 22 days ago
Argentina's last dictator and five military leaders who helped rule the country more than 25 years ago went on trial Monday on human rights charges...Reynaldo Benito Bignone, who ruled Argentina from June 1982 until the nation's return to democracy...
News Source: Reuters
| 22 days ago
The last military president in Argentina's 1976-1983 dictatorship went on trial on Monday in a makeshift courtroom in a sports arena on charges of kidnapping, torture and murder of 56 people in a concentration camp. Frail-looking Reynaldo Bignone,...
News Source: Sify News
| 22 days ago
Trial began Monday for Argentina's last dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, five former generals and two others accused of kidnappings and murders in one of the nation's largest torture centers, the Campo de Mayo military base. Bignone is accused of holding...