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Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo was the dictator and de facto President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'etat that deposed Isabel Martinez de Peron. After the return to democracy, he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses, including widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of suspected and actual leftists under his rule. He is now under house arrest.
The coup
After serving as Director of the Nation's Military Academy (Colegio Militar de la Nacion) and after almost two months as Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Estado Mayor Conjunto) of the Argentine Armed ...
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