Jorge Rafael Videla
General Jorge Rafael Videla was an Argentine military dictator and the President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981 during the National Reorganization Process. His rule, which was during the time of Operation Condor, was among the most infamous in Latin America during the Cold War due to its high level of human rights abuses including abductions, torture, executions and systematic kidnapping of children from female prisoners, as well as severe economic mismanagement.
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Background
- Born in
- Mercedes
- Educated at
- Western Hemisphere Institute for Security CooperationArmy War AcademyNation Military College
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of May🏆 Order of the Sun of Peru🏆 Order of the Liberator General San Martín🏆 Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic🏆 Grand Cross of the Cross of Military Merit with White Decoration
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Trending topics shown first"Let's say there were 7,000 or 8,000 people who had to die to win the war against subversion... We couldn't execute them by firing squad. Neither could we take them to court... For that reason, so as n…"
"As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure."
"… yesterday’s enemies are in power and from there, they are trying to establish a Marxist regime."
"The women giving birth, who I respect as mothers, were militants who were active in the machine of terror... Many used their unborn children as human shields."
"We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger."
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1925
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