Ordinary Justice and Traditional Justice Systems
ARGENTINA: Latin American justice will try those responsible for Operación Cóndor.
For the first time, Latin American justice will try those responsible for Operation Condor as a whole and the cooperation between the dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay, to persecute and eliminate opponents in the 70s and 80s. So far, only those responsible for four of the hundreds of victims of the Operation have been sentenced. The trial, which will take place in Buenos Aires, will examine the disappearance of 106 people, mostly Uruguayans (about 48) but also of a Peruvian, Chileans, Paraguayans, Bolivians and Argentinians, among which is the daughter of poet Juan Gelman, María Claudia García Irureta. The 25 defendants include the two former dictadors Jorge Videla (1976-1981) and Reynaldo Bignone (1982-1983), and only a foreigner, the Uruguayan former military Manuel Cordero, charged with the case of Garcia Irureta. Moreover, former de facto president Reynaldo Bignone is convicted to life sentence for 23 crimes in Campo de Mayo, one of the main clandestine detention and torture centres during the dictatorship. (El Pais, 05, 13/03/13)