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Ex-general gets life sentence for Operation Condor role

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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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