Argentina’s ex-dictator, Jorge Videla, together with sixteen of the country’s former military leaders, is to be tried once more for crimes against humanity. In a public sitting, the Argentinean courts declared that the seventeen must still account for the crimes committed as part of the so-called Plan Condor. Under this plan, the dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil worked together in the 1970s to remove political opponents. Thousands of dissidents disappeared, or were killed or tortured. The now 82-year-old Videla was sentence to life imprisonment in 1985, but later freed under a general pardon. (Radio Netherlands)
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