Warrants for Latin Americans issued
An Italian judge issued arrest warrants for 140 Latin Americans suspected of involvement in a coordinated persecution of leftists and dissidents by Latin America’s military rulers in the 1970s, Italian news agencies reported.
Almost all of those on the list are living in Latin America and a number are already in custody there. One man, Nestor Jorge Fernandez Troccoli, a former member of the Uruguayan secret services, was arrested in southern Italy, the Ansa and Agi news agencies reported.
The warrants involve Argentines, Bolivians, Brazilians, Chileans, Paraguayans and Peruvians.
They are suspected of complicity in the deaths of 25 Italian citizens killed in Latin America in the 1970s, the news agencies reported. It was not clear whether the judge would try to have the suspects extradited.
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