It was a chilly early morning in the Marcos Paz penitentiary when Jorge Rafael Videla, the infamous dictator, was found dead in his cell at age 87. The human rights organizations and survivors of the dictatorship era fought long and hard for the dictators to be tried and sentenced to jail. Originally from Mercedes, a town in Buenos Aires province, Jorge Rafael Videla was a military man who built a long career between 1944 and 1975. “We Argentines should not be ashamed, because what happened was a defense of human rights, threatened by terrorism,” he said. “This incident,” wrote Cox, “calls for just the kind of action that President Videla has been promising in Washington.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald May 17, 2023 20:21 UTC