{"id":7883,"date":"2013-05-18T05:37:38","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T05:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/argentine-dictator-videla-dies-in-jail\/"},"modified":"2013-05-18T05:35:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T05:35:18","slug":"argentine-dictator-videla-dies-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/argentine-dictator-videla-dies-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Dictator Videla Dies in Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called &#8220;subversives,&#8221; died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. <\/p>\n<p>He was 87.}}<\/p>\n<p>Federal Prison Service Director Victor Hortel said Videla died in his prison cell. He was found lifeless in his bed and declared dead at 8:25 a.m., according to an official medical report cited by the state news agency Telam.<\/p>\n<p>Videla ran one of the bloodiest military governments during South America&#8217;s era of dictatorships, and later sought to take full responsibility for kidnappings, tortures, deaths and disappearances when he was tried again and again for these crimes in recent years. <\/p>\n<p>He said he knew about everything that happened under his rule because &#8220;I was above everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some rights activists see Videla now as more of a tool than a leader, alleging that the junta served to consolidate the power of Argentina&#8217;s wealthy elites.<\/p>\n<p>Videla had a low profile before the March 24, 1976, coup, but quickly became the architect of a repressive system that killed about 9,000 people, according to an official accounting after democracy returned to Argentina in 1983. <\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists believe the real number was as high as 30,000.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2718 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/xb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{wirestory}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called &#8220;subversives,&#8221; died quietly in his sleep Friday while serving life in prison for crimes against humanity. He was 87.}} Federal Prison Service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7883"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}