His career coincided with the so-called Dirty War in Argentina, which lasted from 1976 until 1983.
The general has been accused of being the main architect of what became known as Argentina's "Dirty War".
No "dirty war" has taken place in Colombia like the one perpetrated by the Argentinean Junta in the 1970's and 1980's.
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Human rights groups estimate that up to 30, 000 people were killed or disappeared in Argentina's "dirty war" from 1976 to 1982.
Mr Cavallo has denied his involvement and says he is the victim of mistaken identity and that he played no part in Argentina's "Dirty War".
Mrs Fernandez Meijide, whom many fancy as the alliance's presidential candidate for 1999, lost a son during the dirty war and has never learned his fate.
Gen Luciano Benjamin Menendez, who the judges said played a crucial part in the "Dirty War" against leftist activists, was also sentenced to life in prison.
The Vatican has sought to quell controversy over Pope Francis' conduct during Argentina's so-called Dirty War from 1976 to 1983, amid accusations that he could have done more to protect two Jesuit priests who were kidnapped.
It is as if the old ghosts of the "dirty war" came back from the sands of Mali to haunt Algiers, bringing home the spectre of armed groups which it had taken the Algerian army a decade of great efforts to expel.
Congress' war on dirty money, in short, is aimed directly at the confidentiality at the heart of private banking.
Mr Johnston's most extraordinary discovery reveals the young Wordsworth not as an idealistic outsider but as someone very much caught up in the dirty machinations of a country at war: he offers evidence that, during a tour of Germany with his sister Dorothy in the late 1790s, Wordsworth was acting as a paid courier or low-level spy on behalf of the British government.
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