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Death of Argentinas Videla evokes painful memories
A state criminal, a dictator, a repressor - there are many ways Argentines refer to former de-facto president Jorge Rafael Videla, who has died in prison at the age of 87. But there is something almost everyone seems to agree upon - he was probably the most hated man in Argentina. Videla was a symbol of a whole era of coups, military rule and fierce repression in South America. He came to ...
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Papal tourism hits Buenos Aires streets
You can see the streets where he grew up and played soccer, the church where Jorge Bergoglio prayed as a teenager and the cathedral where the man who would become Pope Francis said Mass. You can even visit the stand where he bought his newspapers every weekend and where he went for a haircut. With an Argentine on the throne of St Peter, the South American country's capital city, Buenos Aires, ...
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General Jorge Rafael Videla Dictator who brought terror to Argentina in the dirty war
General Jorge Rafael Videla was the dictator who brought terror to his country in the second half of the 1970s, plunging it into a "dirty war" against subversion. At least 9,000 people were killed by armed forces under his direct command as president of the military junta which had seized power in March 1976. Videla always argued that he had merely been doing his duty. He claimed not ...










