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Dirty War suspect extradited to Argentina

Press TV – December 26, 2011

Bolivia has extradited former Argentinean military officer Luis Enrique Baraldini, who is wanted for human rights abuses during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

Bolivian Interior Minister Wilfredo Chavez announced on Sunday that Baraldini “was delivered to the Argentine authorities in [the border city of] Bermejo.”

Baraldini is accused of crimes he committed in Argentina’s La Pampa province, where he served as chief of police during the Dirty War, which lasted from 1976 to 1983.

The former officer has been “very much sought after as a longtime fugitive… for personally torturing people, according to witness accounts,” Argentine Security Minister Nilda Garre said at a press conference held after Baraldini was handed over.

Bolivian authorities apprehended the suspect on Saturday in Santa Cruz, about 900 kilometers (approximately 560 miles) east of the Bolivian capital La Paz. They said Baraldini had been living there for several years under the pseudonym Marco Antonio Aponte.

Buenos Aires had offered a reward of about $23,000 for information leading to his arrest.

According to human rights groups, an estimated 30,000 people — mostly leftist dissidents — died in Argentina’s Dirty War.

December 26, 2011 - Posted by | Subjugation - Torture

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