Santiago Omar Riveros

Riveros in the 1970s Santiago Omar Riveros (; 4 August 1923 – 24 May 2024) was an Argentinian military officer who served in the Argentine Army, in which he bore the rank of divisional general and between 1976 and 1978 held the post of Commander of Military Institutes (''Comandante de Institutos Militares'') during Argentina's so-called Dirty War in the 1970s and 1980s, waged by the self-styled "National Reorganization Process" (Spanish: ''Proceso de Reorganización Nacional''), which was in fact a military dictatorship. Riveros played a prominent role during the dictatorship's repression, for which he later faced proceedings in which he was found guilty and sentenced for crimes against humanity. At the time of his death at the age of 100, Riveros was still serving his sentence at his home. Provided by Wikipedia
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