The Tribunal Oral Federal de Córdoba sentenced to life imprisonment on December 23, 2010 Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla for crimes against humanity between 1976 and 1983.
The same court also imposed the same penalty to General Luciano Benjamin Menendez and twenty-eight other soldiers.
Videla and his accomplices were tried for the murder of 31 people of the Unidad Penitenciario San Martín de Córdoba, known as UP1, and also for the kidnapping, torture of six people accused of "belonging to revolutionary organizations"
The dictator in the process has always insisted that he had undertaken a "just war against terrorists who tried to overthrow the military government to establish a Marxist Leninist dictatorship." Videla also continued to call themselves "honored the victory against the guerrillas" and claimed for himself all the responsibility for the actions of his subordinates in the leadership of Argentina from 1976 to 1980.
The sentence will be served in a prison town, not a military, the ruling took into account all the documentary evidence and testimony that the magistrate Maximiliano Hairabedian managed to get so Videla identifying the "most responsible" in the planning of the plan systematic "to eliminate opponents of the military regime."
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