Argentine dictator sentenced to life in prison

[Valley Oak]

https://www.elpais.com/articulo/inte...pepuint_22/Tes

Jorge Videla, military dictator of Argentina (1976-1981), has been sentenced to eek out the rest of his miserable days in prison. He should have been executed decades ago.

[sharingwisdom]

Well, these kinds of dictatorships are not done w/o US/CIA support. So why are the other culprets in this country who were involved, not held accountable?

Published on Saturday, August 28, 2004 by the Guardian/UK
Kissinger Backed Dirty War Against Left in Argentina
Transcripts show former secretary of state urged violent crackdown on opposition
https://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0828-02.htm

Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday.
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ARGENTINE MILITARY BELIEVED U.S. GAVE GO-AHEAD FOR DIRTY WAR
New State Department documents show conflict between Washington and US Embassy in Buenos Aires over signals to the military dictatorship at height of repression in 1976
https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB...B73/index3.htm
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Kissinger and The 'Dirty War'
The Nation magazine, 10/31/87
https://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/K..._DirtyWar.html
Just three months after Argentina's generals took power in 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger gave that country's military a green light to continue its "dirty war," according to a State Department memorandum obtained by InterNation. This document shows that in early 1977 Robert Hill, then the U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires, told a top Carter Administration offi- cial that Kissinger had given his approval to the repression in which at least 9,000 people were kidnapped and secretly murdered. Kissinger, he charged, put his imprimatur on the massive disappearances in a June 10, 1976, meeting in Santiago, Chile, with Argentina's Foreign Minister, Adm. C6sar Guzzetti. Both men were attending the Sixth General Assembly of the Organization of American States, whose agenda, ironically, had been dominated by the human rights issue.
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KISSINGER TO ARGENTINES ON DIRTY WAR:
"THE QUICKER YOU SUCCEED THE BETTER"
https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB...B104/index.htm
Newly declassified documents show Secretary of State gave green light to junta, Contradict official line that Argentines "heard only what wanted to hear."

https://www.elpais.com/articulo/inte...pepuint_22/Tes

Jorge Videla, military dictator of Argentina (1976-1981), has been sentenced to eek out the rest of his miserable days in prison. He should have been executed decades ago.

[Valley Oak]

So you are saying that Kissinger should also go to jail?

Well, these kinds of dictatorships are not done w/o US/CIA support. So why are the other culprets in this country who were involved, not held accountable?

[sharingwisdom]

I'm saying he is accountable for this and many more crimes. And when you stop attempting to fit things into categories of politcal parties and understand the deeper truths, which have no affiliation with parties, I'm sure this info that you didn't even read (coming out of The Nation and other reputable news sources), might be able to fit the puzzle pieces together. Have a restful solstice.

So you are saying that Kissinger should also go to jail?

[natalie]

I'm saying Kissinger should go to jail.