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Handout file photo of Argentinian Air Force Commander-in-Chief (1976-1979), Orlando Ramon Agosti (R), Argentinian dictator (1976-1981) Jorge Rafael Videla (C), and Argentinian Naval military officer Eduardo Massera (L) attending an official ceremony, in Buenos Aires on 1977. After leading the military coup that deposed President Maria Estela Martinez de Peron on March 24, 1976, Videla became President as head of a three-man military junta including Agosti and Massera. In 1985, Videla was convicted for murder and sentenced to life, but was pardoned by President Carlos Menem in 1990. He was then under house arrest until 2008, when he was sent to a military prison. On December 22, 2010, after a new trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in a civilian prison, where he died on May 17, 2013. December 10, 2013 commemorates the 30th anniversary of the return to democracy in Argentina. AFP PHOTO / HO
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