Orlando Agosti, a former air force general who helped launch the country's "dirty war" against left-wing dissidents with the 1976 coup, died of cancer. He was convicted of torture and sentenced to three years in prison in 1985. He was pardoned by President Carlos Menem.
Passage: Orlando Agosti, 73
Orlando Agosti, a former air force general who helped launch the country's "dirty war" against left-wing dissidents with the 1976 coup, died of cancer. He was convicted of torture and sentenced to three years in prison in 1985. He was pardoned by President Carlos Menem.
