Mexico Detains Argentine on Spanish Extradition Request for “Dirty War”Atrocities

On August 26, 2000, a Mexican judge ordered the detention of the accused Argentine torturer Miguel Ángel Cavallo, who had been living in Mexico where he was director-general of Mexico’s National Registry of Vehicles. In November 1999, Baltazar Garzón, the same Spanish judge who requested extradition to Spain from Britain of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for human rights crimes against Spanish citizens during the 1970s, filed charges against Cavallo, 48. The criminal charges include terrorism, homicide and torture committed during Argentina’s Dirty War against leftists in the 1970s...[more]