Ex-Prisoners Testify Against Argentine
Victims of repression during Argentina’s “dirty war” testified before a Spanish judge Thursday that a man being held in Mexico was in fact an agent at a notorious torture center in the 1970s.
Former prisoners at the Navy School of Mechanics in Buenos Aires said Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, alias Miguel Angel Cavallo, was one of the military officials in charge.
Cavallo, arrested last week in Mexico, has denied any role in the “dirty war” against leftists and opponents of Argentina’s 1976-83 military junta.
A prominent businessman living in Mexico, Cavallo was detained after Mexico’s Reforma newspaper said he was a former agent of the junta wanted by the Spanish judge for crimes against Spaniards.
Two former prisoners--Susana Burgos and Juan Gasparini--told reporters that they had told Judge Baltasar Garzon that they recognized Cavallo from photographs as one of the officials based at the center.
Garzon is preparing an extradition case against Cavallo.
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