Jorge Videla

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Birth Name: Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo

Born: 2 August 1925 Died: 17 May 2013

Country of origin: Argentina

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Description: Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo (2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was a senior commander in the Argentine Army and dictator of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. In 1985, two years after the return of a representative democratic government, he was prosecuted in the Trial of the Juntas for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists and political opponents as well as their families at secret concentration camps. An ... (more)

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