The Argentine repressor Miguel Etchecolatz dies

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(CNN Spanish) --

Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz, repressor during the last dictatorship in Argentina, died this Saturday at the age of 93.

Etchecolatz died at 5:30 this Saturday at the Sarmiento Clinic in the Buenos Aires town of San Miguel, where he was hospitalized under police custody, according to the state news agency Télam.

Guadalupe Godoy, one of the lawyers who was part of the lawsuit against the repressor in the case investigating the disappearance of bricklayer Jorge Julio López, also confirmed the news.

"Convicted of hundreds of crimes against humanity, at the age of 93, the genocidal #Etchecolatz died, who until the last day kept the pact of silence. He takes the truth about the fate of our children and grandchildren, but we achieved justice and memory for sustain the #NeverMore," said the NGO Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, an organization that aims to locate and return to their families all the children appropriated by the last dictatorship, on its official Twitter account.

Convicted of hundreds of crimes against humanity, at the age of 93, the genocidal #Etchecolatz died, who until the last day kept the pact of silence.

It takes the truth about the fate of our children and grandchildren, but we achieved justice and memory to sustain the #NeverMore pic.twitter.com/lbyQu1RiEH

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– Grandmothers Plaza Mayo (@abuelasdifusion) July 2, 2022

Etchecolatz was director of Police Investigations in the province of Buenos Aires during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) in Argentina, which according to human rights organizations left at least 30,000 missing.

In March 2016, Etchecolatz was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the kidnapping and disappearance of Daniel Favero and María Paula Álvarez in 1977, according to the Télam agency.

However, the Federal Oral Court 1 sentenced him to life imprisonment for the previous sentences to which he and he had already been sentenced.

In 2013, a court unified three convictions for crimes against humanity against Etchecolatz (the one from the 1986 military trials, the one from 2004 for the theft of a baby, another from 2006) and received a life sentence, according to Télam.

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In 2014 he was also sentenced to life imprisonment for the crimes committed in the clandestine detention center in La Plata, known as La Cacha, adds the news agency.

In addition, in October 2018, he was sentenced to life "for the crimes committed in the clandestine detention centers that operated in the Rustler Division of the Güemes Brigade, in La Matanza, and in the 1st Monte Grande Police Station, owned by Esteban Echeverría. Says Telam.

The news agency details that in 2020 two life sentences were added: one for the kidnappings, torture and deaths of detainees housed in the San Justo Brigade.

The other conviction was for the kidnapping and torture of seven people in the former clandestine center of Pozo Arana, including the bricklayer Jorge Julio López.

I collaborate with this report Sol Amaya