11 February 2010

URUGUAY: Former Dictator Gets 30-Year Sentence.

AP/MIAMI HERALD/   Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry, 81, whose 1973 coup began a 12-year dictatorship, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution. Bordaberry was democratically elected in 1971 but dissolved the Congress and ended political parties the next year so the military could take over in 1973. The military ousted Bordaberry in 1976,