another article -
http://www.ipsnews.net/sendnews.asp?idnews=35009snip
RIGHTS-URUGUAY: Uncovering the Truth, Three Decades On
Analysis by Diana Cariboni
MONTEVIDEO, Oct 5 (IPS) - Juan María Bordaberry attained a
certain notoriety outside of Uruguay's borders when he
transformed himself from democratically elected president to
dictator in June 1973, dissolving Congress, outlawing political
parties and civil society organisations, and suspending civil
liberties in a coup d'etat in which he joined forces with the
military.
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In fact Uruguay had the largest number of political prisoners
and torture victims in proportion to its population, in a region
that was basically ruled at the time by de facto military regimes.
On Thursday night, one of the former dictator's sons, lawyer
Pedro Bordaberry, who served as tourism minister in the
conservative Colorado Party administration of Jorge Batlle
(2000-2005), was interviewed on a local investigative journalism
programme, and said he would present "proof" that his father was
innocent of the murders of exiled legislators Michelini and
Gutiérrez Ruiz.
Furthermore, he argued, by agreeing to remain in his post when
the armed forces staged the coup, his father saved the country
from even worse woes, like a dictatorship along the lines of that
of leftist General Juan Velasco Alvarado (1968-1975), who carried
out broad land reform and nationalisations in Peru.
But while Bordaberry insisted that he personally had a strong
faith in democracy, he refused to repudiate his dictator father,
although he did say he "did not agree" with the coup.