Orlando Agosti

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Orlando Ramón Agosti (1976)

Orlando Ramón Agosti Echenique (born December 18, 1924 in San Andrés de Giles , Buenos Aires Province , † October 6, 1997 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine politician and military man.

Life

He was born the son of Italian immigrants and attended the Air Force military school. He graduated there in 1947. After serving as a military attaché in the USA and Canada , he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force on January 1, 1976 with the rank of Brigadier General. He held this position until 1979. Two months later , Agosti launched a coup against the government under President Isabel Martínez de Perón . From 1976 to 1983 he formed the military junta together with Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Massera . After the end of the military dictatorship , he was convicted of his crimes during the "dirty war" and was imprisoned until 1989. He was accused of 88 murders, 581 illegal arrests and 278 cases of torture (with seven people being tortured to death), 110 thefts and 11 kidnappings. Agosti was the only one of the leading figures in the military dictatorship to serve his sentence in full. In 1990 he and other leading figures in the military dictatorship were pardoned by President Carlos Saul Menem . Agosti's attempt to be fully rehabilitated in 1993 and to regain his military rank failed in court. He died in 1997.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Orlando Agosti" ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2008 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. , TRIAL Watch (Swiss Association against Impunity) website, 2010, accessed June 13, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.trial-ch.org
  2. ↑ Calvin Sims: Orlando Agosti, 73, Argentine Junta Member . In: The New York Times , October 11, 1997. 

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personal data
SURNAME Agosti, Orlando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Agosti Echenique, Orlando Ramón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine politician and military
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH San Andrés de Giles , Buenos Aires Province
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1997
Place of death Buenos Aires