On December 22, 2010, on charges of torture, aggravated by political persecution, the Court of Cordoba Jorge Rafael Videla was sentenced to life imprisonment (to be served in a civilian prison) and to 'permanent exclusion of the public office.
The eighty-five former Argentine dictator did in 1976 kidnapping, torture and execute 31 political prisoners in the jail of Cordoba. early as 1985, Videla was sentenced to life imprisonment along with the former general who had succeeded in the military juntas that ruled Argentina until 1983, but then benefited from the pardon and was scarcierato after only five years.
Before reading the verdict, the defendant took the floor claiming to have acted in a just war as opposed to Marxist subversives who, by order of the Soviet Union and Cuba, its Latin American branch, they wanted to bring the country their ideological system. With
Videla was sentenced to life imprisonment also the former General Luciano Benjamin Menendez, although he has been asked for a medical examination to determine if it can be transferred to a civilian prison.
Videla's dictatorship was responsible for the disappearance of about 30,000 people disappeared, 3,000 of which were precipitated in the Atlantic Ocean or in the Río de la Plata using the infamous vuelos de la muerte (death flights).
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