BUENOS AIRES: An Argentine court sentenced retired general Eduardo Cabanillas to life in prison for running a notorious detention center in Buenos Aires during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship. Cabanillas received his sentence after being found guilty of five counts of murder, 29 counts of "illegally depriving victims of their liberty" and 29 counts of torture, a ruling read.
The court also sentenced former military intelligence agent Raul Raul Guglielminetti to 20 years in prison, while ex-intelligence officers Honorio Martinez Ruiz and Eduardo Ruffo got 25 years each behind bars. Over a hundred people are believed to have been kidnapped and taken to the secret prison, Automotores Orletti. Most detainees were Uruguayan opposition activists, but there were also Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians and two officials from the Cuban embassy.
It was part of Operation Condor, a plot by right wing South American dictatorships in the 1970s to coordinate repression of leftists in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia and Uruguay.
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