Former Uruguay dictator held in 1976 political killings

[rpannier]

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) -- Police have arrested former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry and his foreign minister in connection with four "Dirty War" killings dating to 1976, officials said Friday.

The arrest of Bordaberry, 78, and former Foreign Minister Juan Blanco marked a new chapter in efforts by this small South American country to grapple with the 1973-85 dictatorship and its legacy of disappearances, torture and exile of thousands of political dissidents.

Bordaberry and Blanco, who was the first to be detained after a judge's arrest warrants were issued late Thursday, were taken to the main police investigations unit, police spokesman Celso Sosa said.


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Leftist Sen. Zelmar Michelini and House leader Hector Gutierrez, two prominent lawmakers who tried to flee Uruguay, were seized from their homes in exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and their bullet-riddled bodies were found days later, along with those of the suspected guerrillas William Whitelaw and Rosario Barredo.


link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americas/11/17/uruguay.ap/index.html

[Lautremont]

1. I'm glad they got the guy, but "Dictator Bordaberry" isn't as scary

as some I could name. Still, those right-wing SA strongmen were a hideous bunch, funny name or not.

Quoth Homer, "Ha U-r-gay!"