Miguel Ángel Cavallo

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Miguel Ángel Cavallo (born September 29, 1951 ) alias Ricardo Miguel Cavallo is an Argentine who was involved as a lieutenant during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983 in the state terror of the so-called process of national reorganization .

biography

Member of the Argentine General Staff

In January 1972 Cavallo became a midshipman in the high command of the Argentine Navy .

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In 1976, at the beginning of the military dictatorship, Cavallo was dressed civilly and wore long hair, which is why he was also known as Serpico because of the supposed similarities to the film character played by Al Pacino in 1973 . He studied Ciencias Exactas ( graduate canteen ). In 1978 he continued his studies in human medicine with the Navy . During the military dictatorship, the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA) (Naval Mechanics School) was a detention and torture center. Cavallo was a member of the emergency force GT 3.32 at ESMA . In this context, he was accused of kidnapping, torture, enforced disappearance of prisoners and "referring" infants born in prison to financially strong people. One of his new applications for a passport in late 1978 was for a trip to France - it is therefore assumed that Cavallo belonged to the Tetricus I "Centro Piloto" command , which kidnapped and murdered the Argentine diplomat Elena Holmberg in Paris during this period . In 1981 he returned to ESMA . In 1986, in democratic Argentina, he applied for and received a passport to travel to the United States. At that time he was employed in the general staff and presented a letter of recommendation to the Argentine federal authorities from Juan Carlos Anchezar, who was Hugo Anzorreguy's deputy in the Argentine Ministry of News, Secretaría de Inteligencia del Estado (SIDE). In 1987 Cavallo was corvette captain and continued to serve on the Navy General Staff.

Entrepreneurs in Mexico

By forging documents, the Argentine military appropriated some of the assets of the people they themselves murdered. The prey of these expropriations that at least 70 million US dollars is estimated was part of the state terrorism of the military. This fortune formed the basis for companies in which the former torturers operate as owners and managers, including Cavallo.

Cavallo initially focused its entrepreneurship on Central America and, from 1999, on Mexico . Even though he was already a civilian in 1990, he lived and worked in Comodoro Py 2055 , the seat of the General Staff of the Navy.

Cavallo stayed in the security services department. He offered the operation of data registers, which actually belonged to the sovereignty of the states. This included the passport and registration system, electoral register and motor vehicle register. As part of the liberalization under Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León , Cavallo's company TALSUD succeeded in obtaining the concession for the establishment and operation of a Mexican central vehicle register Registro Nacional de Vehículos . Siemens was a competitor for this contract . The RENAVE Act was passed by the Mexican Parliament on June 3, 1998 and was in force from June 15, 1998 to December 31, 2000.

arrest

In 2000 Ricardo Miguel Cavallo was arrested in Cancun , Mexico . The Mexican authorities alleged fraud, embezzlement and the illegal sale of vehicles. In the course of the investigation, Cavallo's previous life as Lieutenant Miguel Ángel Cavallo alias “Serpico” in Argentina was revealed and that he was accused of numerous crimes such as genocide , torture and terrorism during the Argentine military dictatorship in the 1970s. A Mexican court ruled on an extradition request made by the Spanish Audiencia Nacional. The uncovering of the Cavallo case raised doubts about the liberalization of the security system in Mexico, since the concession of the motor vehicle central register in private legal form had contributed to Cavallo's hiding.

Extradition to Spain

Cavallo was handed over to the Spanish authorities by the Mexican authorities in June 2003. In Spain, the Audiencia Nacional did not want to indict him in December 2006 because it saw the legal system in Argentina solidified and encouraged the Argentine public prosecutor to file an extradition request. In February 2008, a court approved an extradition request from Argentina.

Legal proceedings in Argentina from 2008

On March 31, 2008 Cavallo was extradited from the Spanish to the Argentine authorities. Relatives of Spanish victims of the Argentine dictatorship had tried to the last to prevent the extradition because they feared the process in Argentina would be delayed. In April 2008, Cavallo was questioned in a court case in Argentina. In October 2011 he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ analysis & criticism , September 28, 2000, From state terrorist to privatization winner - The Cavallo case
  2. ↑ Equipo Nizkor , September 2006 CASO Nº689: HOLMBERG ELENA ANGELICA DOLORES
  3. ↑ La Nacion , 22 de febrero de 2001 Por qué asesinaron a Elena Holmberg en 1978
  4. ^ The New York Times , September 8, 1989 Argentine Wavers on Army Pardons
  5. ^ Paul H. Lewis, Guerrillas and Generals, The dirty war in Argentina Praeger Publishers, Westport, 2001, p. 169.
  6. ↑ La Fogata , September 2006 DESCUBRIMIENTO Y PRISION DE CAVALLO
  7. ↑ ZAPAPRES , September 9, 2000 The privatization of the vehicle registration office pdf ( Memento of the original of September 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zapapres.de
  8. ↑ La Fogata , undated La responsabilidad es de todos losreprores, por todos los compañeros que pasaron por la ESMA
  9. ↑ Diario Oficial de la Federación , June 8, 2000 REGISTRO NACIONAL DE VEHÍCULOS (RENAVE) ( Memento of the original of July 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.impuestum.com
  10. ↑ La Jornada , 12 de enero de 2006 Pide fiscal 17 mil años de prisión para el repressor argentino Cavallo ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jornada.unam.mx
  11. ↑ La Fogata , 12 de enero de 2006 Descubrimiento Y prision DE CAVALLO
  12. ↑ taz , July 1, 2007 The case of an Argentine alleged torturer extradited from Mexico to Spain makes legal history
  13. ↑ Die Welt , July 19, 2007 Argentine torturer comes to court in Spain
  14. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 25, 2003 arrest warrant against 46 former junta members ( Memento of May 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  15. ↑ BBC , December 20, 2006 Spain rejects 'dirty war' trial
  16. ↑ Pagina | 12 , 29 de Febrero de 2008 España autoriza la extradición de Ricardo Cavallo
  17. ↑ Tagesspiegel , March 31, 2008 Alleged torturer extradited to Argentina
  18. ↑ Pagina | 12 , 17 de April 2008 La primera indagatoria por la megacausa ESMA
  19. ^ ICD , undated The Prosecutor v. Ricardo Miguel Cavallo
  20. ^ Clarin , October 26th, 2011 Quién es cada uno de los 18 juzgados
personal data
SURNAME Cavallo, Miguel Ángel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cavallo, Ricardo Miguel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine lieutenant
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1951