BUENOS AIRES, April 1 (UPI) -- Argentina has sent a retired general to prison for life for running a torture center during the 1976-1983 military regime.
Gen. Eduardo Cabanillas was sentenced in a Buenos Aires court Thursday, the BBC reported.
Former intelligence agents Honorio Martinez and Eduardo Ruffo got 25 years and former military intelligence officer Raul Guglielminetti 20 years for murder, torture and illegal imprisonment.
Some 200 suspected or real leftist activists were kidnapped and taken to Automotores Orletti, a secret prison in Buenos Aires disguised as a garage. The victims were mostly Uruguayan, but included Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians and Cubans.
The crimes were part of Operation Condor, a joint campaign by the armed forces of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay to suppress opposition.
Macarena Gelman, whose parents were held at the site and murdered, said from her home in Uruguay, "It is a little bit of justice when we need so much."
Gelman was born in captivity and raised by a Uruguayan policeman, and discovered her true identity only in 2000.
