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Jorge Rafael Videla

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Jorge Rafael Videla

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Also known as Jorge Videla, Jorge R. Videla, Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo

Argentine dictator (1925–2013)

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Jorge Rafael Videla (1925–2013) was an Argentine politician and military officer who served as President of Argentina. Born in Mercedes, he was educated at the Nation Military College and the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. A member of the Argentine Army, he held ranks including lieutenant general and divisional general. He was a Catholic and worked in Buenos Aires.

Videla received several honors, including the Order of the Liberator General San Martín, the Order of the Sun of Peru, and the Order of May. He was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment. He died of cardiac arrest in Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires.

His published works include *Cita con Videla* and *Discursos y mensajes del Presidente de la Nación*. He is also associated with the text *The political thinking of the Argentine government*.

Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1925
Works
6

Top works

  • Cita con Videla
  • Texto completo de la sentencia dictada el 9 de diciembre de 1985 por la excelentísima Cámara Nacional de Apelaciones en lo Criminal y Correccional Federal de la Capital Federal en la causa 13 del año 1984 seguida al Tte. Gral. (r) Jorge Rafael Videla ... [et al.].
  • Visita oficial al Perú del excelentisimo señor presidente de la Nación Argentina teniente general, Jorge Rafael Videla
  • Discursos y mensajes del Presidente de la Nación
  • The political thinking of the Argentine government

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Argentina
Active from
1939-03-17
Active to
2023-07-16
harpsichordist

Discography

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13
Total plays
32

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Jorge+Rafael+Videla">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,961x

  2. Law and Finance

    · 1998 · cited 13,295x

  3. Salmon provides fast and bias-aware quantification of transcript expression

    · 2017 · cited 12,499x

  4. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,995x

  5. Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

    · 2012 · cited 10,801x

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Quotes

  • “As many people as necessary must die in Argentina so that the country will again be secure.”
  • “I want to clarify that Argentine citizens are not victims of the repression. The repression is against a minority that we do not consider Argentine.”
  • “We consider it a great crime to work against the Western and Christian style of life: it is not just the bomber but the ideologist who is the danger.”
  • “… yesterday’s enemies are in power and from there, they are trying to establish a Marxist regime.”
  • “There was no other alternative [to the disappearances]... [Military leaders] were in agreement that it was the price that must be paid to win the war against subversion and we needed that it not be obvious so society would not realize it. It was necessary to eliminate a large group of people who could not be brought to justice nor [openly] shot either.”
  • “The women giving birth, who I respect as mothers, were militants who were active in the machine of terror... Many used their unborn children as human shields.”

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Encyclopedic overview

General Jorge Rafael Videla (/vɪˈdɛlə/ vid-EL-ə; Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe rafaˈel βiˈðela]; 2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was an Argentine general, politician and dictator who served as the president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981 during the National Reorganization Process. His rule, which was during the time of Operation Condor, was among the most infamous in Latin America during the Cold War due to its high level of human rights abuses including abductions, torture, executions and systematic kidnapping of children from female prisoners, as well as severe economic mismanagement.

He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Perón. In 1985, two years after the return of a representative democratic government, he was prosecuted in the Trial of the Juntas for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity under his rule including the widespread abduction, torture and murder of activists and political opponents along with their families at secret concentration camps. An estimated 13,000 to 30,000 political dissidents vanished during this period. Videla was also convicted of the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres and passing them on for illegal adoption by associates of the regime. Videla maintained the female guerrilla detainees allowed themselves to become pregnant in the belief they would not be tortured or executed. Videla remained under house arrest until 10 October 2008, when he was sent to a military prison.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jorge Rafael Videla” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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