Uruguayan Officer's Macabre Past Exposed in New Crimes Trial

In his testimony, the genocidal declared himself innocent, ignored the existence of the Condor Plan, justified the torture and asked forgiveness for the "exaggerated response" of the military. In addition, he stated that "the disappeared are dead, but no one wants to recognize it."

Uruguayan Officer's Macabre Past Exposed in New Crimes Trial

A frightening story reappears. Jorge Néstor Troccoli, a former Uruguayan naval officer, is in prison because of murders during Operation Condor. He is facing a second trial in Italy. Dark details from long ago cause new examination of his part in hidden imprisonments and missing persons - a complex situation. The post Uruguayan Officer’s Macabre Past Exposed in New Crimes Trial appeared first on LatinAmerican Post.

For more than five hours of testimony, former Uruguayan Navy officer Jorge Néstor Troccoli, already sentenced (2021) to life imprisonment for having kidnapped, tortured and murdered 26 people in the time of the South American dictatorships, did something he had never done before this week: break the silence. Troccoli thus broke that strategy, so used by repressors accused like him of crimes committed during the South American dictatorships, of n…

By Ricardo Klapp Santa Cruz 49 years ago, on April 3, 1976, they were kidnapped in Mendoza, Juan Hernández, Luis Muñoz and Manuel Tamayo. A week earlier there had been a coup d'état in Argentina. It was the time of Operation Condor, which settled from the Southern Cone of Latin America. Operation or Plan Condor, was a pact and an international criminal organization to apply State terrorism (murder and joint kidnappings) in coordination with the …