Last 11th of  August 11, a delegation of relatives and victims of the dictatorship led by Maria Isabel "Chicha" Mariani, founder of the Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo, presented themselves before the judge Norberto Oyarbide to remind him that Videla was the only repressor sentenced to house arrest and ask the judge to send him to jail.

Almost one third of a century ago Jorge Rafael Videla spearheaded the coup that brought about a state where people lived in terror. Twenty-two years ago he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Federal Chamber of Buenos Aires, a sentence which he began served by his former subordinates in a military unit. Seventeen years ago Videla regained his impunity thanks to the pardon of Carlos Saul Menem. A decade ago, Federal Judge Roberto Marquevich ordered Videla to be locked up in prison for stealing babies born in captivity, but 37 days after the Federal Court of St. Martín granted him house arrest. He was in his house for ten years.

Last 10th of October, at the age of 83 years, the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla stepped into prison again: at unit 34 of the Federal Prison Service, the former Penal Institute of the Armed Forces, located at the military site of Campo de Mayo but with custody of correctional officers.

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Videla taken to prison