Cristino Nicolaides

Cristino Nicolaides (born January 2, 1925 in Córdoba , Argentina , † January 22, 2011 ) was an Argentine lieutenant general and most recently between 1982 and 1983 commander in chief of the army and member of the military junta .

Life

Nicolaides entered the engineering corps as a sub-lieutenant in 1947 and served after his promotion to captain in the Army General Staff . In 1970 he was promoted to colonel and commander of the combat force school ( Escuela de Servicio de Combate ) before he was commander of the VII Infantry Brigade for some time in 1975 .

In 1975, during the tenure of President Isabel Martínez de Perón, he was promoted to brigadier general and commander of the Batallón de Inteligencia 601 intelligence unit . Soon afterwards he became major general and as such also commander of the military institute in Campo de Mayo .

After the Argentine defeat by Great Britain in the Falklands War , he became Commander-in-Chief of the Army on June 18, 1982 ( Ejército Argentino ). In this role he was also a member of the military junta chaired by Reynaldo Bignone , who also included the Commander in Chief of the Navy , Admiral Rubén Franco , and the Air Force , Brigadier General Augusto Hughes . He retained these functions until his return to democracy in December 1983.

On December 16, 1983, he asked the new President Raúl Alfonsín to retire , which was also accepted by him. His successor as Commander in Chief of the Land Forces was then Jorge Arguindegui .

Nicolaides was under house arrest because of a large number of human rights violations , as a trial against him was supposed to begin in March 2011. In 2007 he was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment on charges of organized crime, kidnapping, torture and responsibility for the disappearance of countless people .

Web links

• MERCO PRESS: Former Junta Leader Nicolaides Dies (January 23, 2011)
• HET PAROOL: Argentijnse bevelhebber junta overleden (23 January 2011)