A court in Argentina has sentenced the country’s last military dictator and 14 of his men to long jail terms for their part in Operation Condor, a clandestine programme by six Latin American dictatorships to eliminate leftists in the 1970s. Fourteen of his subordinates were sentenced to serve between eight and 25 years in He was already serving a life sentence for crimes committed during the period of army rule between 1976 and 1983. It handed a 20-year sentence for illegal association, kidnapping and abuse of power to Reynaldo Bignone, 88, who led a military junta from 1982 to 1983.

Source: The Times May 28, 2016 10:52 UTC