Italy: Military prisoners from Bolivia, Chile, Peru and Uruguay sentenced to life imprisonment for Condor plan

The Office of the Prosecutor had requested the life imprisonment of all the accused and the Rome Court of Appeal amended the judgment of the court of first instance in January 2017. had established eight life sentences and the acquittal of 19 accused for prescribing crimes as reported Nodal.

Among the convicts is former Uruguayan soldier Jorge Néstor Troccoli, who had been living in freedom in Italy since his escape from his country in 2007 and was initially acquitted.

In the first instance, the Bolivian dictator Luis García Meza, who died in April 2018, and his Minister of the Interior, Luis Arce Gómez, were sentenced; former Peruvian President Francisco Morales Bermúdez; his prime minister Pedro Richter Prada – died in July 2017-; Peruvian ex-soldier Germán Ruiz; The Chileans Hernán Ramírez and Rafael Ahumada Valderrama and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, Juan Carlos Blanco.

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Luis Arce Gómez and Luis García Meza, two of the convicts

He now joins, besides Troccoli, the former Chilean soldier Pedro Octavio Espinoza Bravo, Daniel Aguirre Mora, Carlos Luco Astroza, Orlando Moreno Vásquez and Manuel Abraham Vásquez Chauan. Former Uruguayan soldiers José Ricardo Arab, Jose Nino Gavazzo, Juan Carlos Larcebeau, Pedro Antonio Mato, Luis Alfredo Maurente, Ricardo Jose Medina, Ernesto Avelino Ramas Pereira, Jose Lima Sande, Jorge Alberto Silveira, Ernesto Soca and Gilberto Vazquez.

The Minister of Defense, José Bayardi, explained that the soldiers found guilty in Uruguay had to finish serving their sentence before being extradited to be imprisoned for life imprisonment in Italy.

The process began with the denunciation, exactly 20 years ago in Italy, of some relatives of the missing, in 1999, a year after the arrest of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet after the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón was arrested.