WNU #1076: Argentine Junta’s Last President Gets Life Sentence

Weekly News Update on the Americas
Issue #1076, April 17, 2011

1. Argentina: Junta’s Last President Gets Life Sentence
2. Honduras: Will Teachers and Government Settle?
3. Mexico: Cops Are Still Homophobic, Survey Says
4. Haiti: Workers Strike at Privatized Phone Company
5. Links to alternative sources on: Latin America, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico

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*1. Argentina: Junta’s Last President Gets Life Sentence
In Buenos Aires on Apr. 14, Argentine federal judge María Lucía Casaín sentenced Gen. Reynaldo Bignone, the last president in the country’s 1976-1983 military regime, to life in prison for crimes against humanity. The judge also handed down life sentences to former military officers Santiago Omar Riveros and Martín Rodríguez, and former Escobar mayor Luis Patti, who was a police agent under the dictatorship. Another former police agent, Juan Fernando Meneghini, was sentenced to six years in prison. The 83-year-old Bignone, who was president from July 1982 to December 1983, had already been sentenced to 25 years of prison in 2010 for crimes committed during the dictatorship in the Campo de Mayo, a military camp that included four torture centers. [...]

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