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Death of Argentinas Videla evokes painful memories
A state criminal, a dictator, a repressor - there are many ways Argentines refer to former de-facto president Jorge Rafael Videla, who has died in prison at the age of 87. But there is something almost everyone seems to agree upon - he was probably the most hated man in Argentina. Videla was a symbol of a whole era of coups, military rule and fierce repression in South America. He came to ...
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Papal tourism hits Buenos Aires streets
You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut. With an Argentine on the throne of St Peter, the South American country's capital city, Buenos Aires, ...
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General Jorge Rafael Videla Dictator who brought terror to Argentina in the dirty war
General Jorge Rafael Videla was the dictator who brought terror to his country in the second half of the 1970s, plunging it into a "dirty war" against subversion. At least 9,000 people were killed by armed forces under his direct command as president of the military junta which had seized power in March 1976. Videla always argued that he had merely been doing his duty. He claimed not ...
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Argentinian Estela de Carlotto Videla an Evil Despicable Man
Buenos Aires, May 17 (Prensa Latina) Argentinian Estela de Carlotto, President of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, said today that history will try late dictator Jorge Rafael Videla for genocide. History will surely consider the dishonour of that dictatorial military regime Videla never regretted, De Carlotto told Continental radio station. There are good men and bad men; this was an evil, ...
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Exhibit of Argentine gauchos opens in Vatican - nostalgia for pope from the end of the earth
Photographs are displayed during the unveiling of the exhibition "Argentina. The Gaucho: Tradition, Art and Faith", in the Carlo Magno wing of Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Friday, May 17, 2013. If Pope Francis is getting a bit nostalgic, all he has to do is slip into St. Peter's Square for a dose of Argentine culture. In a remarkable ...
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Former Argentine Dictator Who Oversaw Death Squads Dies At 87
Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla (center) is sworn-in as president in Buenos Aires after he seized power in 1976. Jorge Rafael Videla, an ambitious Army chief who seized power in Argentina in 1976 and orchestrated a campaign of terror against his opponents, has died in prison at age 87. Videla, whose "Dirty War" killed at least 15,000 people, perhaps twice as many, died of natural ...
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Lula Argentina Brazil should think big to reinforce Latin American integration
Former president of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva received eight "Honoris Causa" doctorates from national universities in a ceremony held at the Senate today. He urged Argentina and Brazil to "think big" and "have good relations to reinforce Latin American integration." He praised ex president Nestor Kirchner, the late husband of president Cristina ...
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Ex-dictator who waged Argentinas Dirty War dies
Former dictator Jorge Videla, who ruled Argentina during its "Dirty War," died in prison Friday while serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. He was 87. Videla, who led Argentina at the head of a military junta between 1976 and 1981, died of natural causes, according to a medical report. Videla launched a campaign against the left in which as many as 30,000 people were ...
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Argentine ex-military dictator sentenced to life Jorge Videla dies in jail cell
Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a "dirty war" dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age ...
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Paraguay ups stakes in electricity row with Brazil Argentina
It began as a Mercosur wrist-rapping of little landlocked Paraguay but an Argentine-Brazilian-Uruguayan diplomatic effort to isolate Asuncion is backfiring with more backlash against the trio from Paraguay's newly legitimized government. Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay mounted international diplomatic sanctions against Paraguay after its Congress jettisoned ...
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Chemical castration in Argentina for rapists?
Chemical castration of rapists seems a good way to prevent them from re-offending. But, if the 'treatment' is reversible by simply not taking the medicine anymore, and if taking the treatment get the rapist a light sentence, is it fair that the victim still has to carry his child if he makes her pregnant in the attack?
It was announced by officials in Argentina’s Mendoza province on the 21st of March, 2010, that chemical castration has been authorized for rapists convicted in the province. The move came after what the authorities called, a “significant rise” in the number of sexual assaults last year. Read more
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