Reply #2: Italy to arrest former Latin American dictators

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Italy to arrest former Latin American dictators
Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, among others, is facing an arrest warrant issued by Italian judicial officials. They are wanted for murder, abduction, and other crimes the 'Dirty War' of the 1970s and 80s.
Dec 25, 2007 - Spero News - http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=13250


Judicial officials in Italy issued 140 arrest orders for persons involved in the so-called "Plan Condor", which involved the detention, torture, and summary execution of South American dissidents during the 1970s and 80s. Among those on the list are former Argentine leaders, General Jorge Rafael Videla and Admiral Emilio Eduardo Massera, as well as General Juan Maria Bordaberry of Uruguay.

Some of those on the warrants have already died, such as former Chilean dictator and army chief Augusto Pinochet. But former uruguayan military intelligence chief Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli - now 60 years old - was arrested in the town of Salerno in southern Italy where he has lived for a number of years. .....

Others on the list include: Eduardo Albano Harguindeguy, Cristino Nicolaides, Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Antonio Domingo Bussi, Santiago Omar Riveros and Eduardo Daniel De Lio. Bussi was one of the more notable officers involved in Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s. Accused of murder, abduction, and corruption he would eventually benefit from an amnesty promulgated under President Raul Alfonsin. Former army officer Bussi, after the Dirty War, became governor of the province of Tucuman and the founder of a political party.

Italian authorities had begun their investigation of "Plan Condor" of dictators and military chieftains involved after following up requests by South Americans who had family ties to Italy .....