Jorge Rafael Videla: Difference between revisions

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Videla first came to power after deposing President Isabel Perón in a successful military coup on March 24, 1976.

The chaotic rule of the Videla regime was known as the [[Dirty War]]. Like many other South American dictators like (such as [[Augusto Pinochet]] in Chile and [[Hugo Banzer]] in Bolivia) Videla had thousands arrested, killed, [[torture]]d or kidnapped. He also had babies of mothers born in detention centers adopted by supporters of the regime. Particularly targeted by Videla's regime were leftist politicians or anyone who was believed to have left-wing sympathies~~. A [[death squad]] called the [[Argentine Anticommunist Alliance]] was formed specially to eliminate them~~.

The chaotic rule of the Videla regime was known as the [[Dirty War]]. Like many other South American dictators like (such as [[Augusto Pinochet]] in Chile and [[Hugo Banzer]] in Bolivia) Videla had thousands arrested, killed, [[torture]]d or kidnapped. He also had babies of mothers born in detention centers adopted by supporters of the regime. Particularly targeted by Videla's regime were leftist politicians or anyone who was believed to have left-wing sympathies.

Argentine Jews also served as prime targets of the Videla regime; between 1,900 and as high as 3,000 Jews were among the 30,000 who were targeted by the Argentine military junta. It is a disproportionate number, as Jews comprised between 5–12% of those targeted but only 1% of the population. Though the official reason given by the government (and some historians) was that there were many Jews that were members of the Leftist and Marxist rebel groups that opposed the dictatorship, but it has been widely accepted that the real reason was because of [[Anti-Semitism]]. Many torture victims were said to have seen pictures of [[Adolf Hitler]] and swastikas on walls of torture chambers and interrogators uttering anti-Semitic epithets.

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 Videla first came to power after deposing President Isabel Perón in a successful military coup on March 24, 1976.
-The chaotic rule of the Videla regime was known as the [[Dirty War]]. Like many other South American dictators like (such as [[Augusto Pinochet]] in Chile and [[Hugo Banzer]] in Bolivia) Videla had thousands arrested, killed, [[torture]]d or kidnapped. He also had babies of mothers born in detention centers adopted by supporters of the regime. Particularly targeted by Videla's regime were leftist politicians or anyone who was believed to have left-wing sympathies. A [[death squad]] called the [[Argentine Anticommunist Alliance]] was formed specially to eliminate them.
+The chaotic rule of the Videla regime was known as the [[Dirty War]]. Like many other South American dictators like (such as [[Augusto Pinochet]] in Chile and [[Hugo Banzer]] in Bolivia) Videla had thousands arrested, killed, [[torture]]d or kidnapped. He also had babies of mothers born in detention centers adopted by supporters of the regime. Particularly targeted by Videla's regime were leftist politicians or anyone who was believed to have left-wing sympathies.
 Argentine Jews also served as prime targets of the Videla regime; between 1,900 and as high as 3,000 Jews were among the 30,000 who were targeted by the Argentine military junta. It is a disproportionate number, as Jews comprised between 5–12% of those targeted but only 1% of the population. Though the official reason given by the government (and some historians) was that there were many Jews that were members of the Leftist and Marxist rebel groups that opposed the dictatorship, but it has been widely accepted that the real reason was because of [[Anti-Semitism]]. Many torture victims were said to have seen pictures of [[Adolf Hitler]] and swastikas on walls of torture chambers and interrogators uttering anti-Semitic epithets.