Brazil extradites Uruguayan officer wanted for alleged rights abuses during Dirty War
By APSaturday, January 23, 2010
Brazil extradites Uruguay officer in ‘Condor’ case
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil has extradited a retired Uruguayan military officer to Argentina to face charges of human rights abuses allegedly committed more than 30 years ago.
The state-run news agency Agencia Brasil says Manuel Juan Cordero Piacentini was handed over to Argentine authorities Saturday.
Cordero was allegedly involved in the disappearance of Argentine and Uruguayan citizens.
Under “Operation Condor,” the military dictatorships that ruled much of South America in the 1970s and 1980s secretly cooperated in the torture and disappearances of each others’ citizens.
Cordero was arrested in February in Brazil near the border with Uruguay. Brazilian authorities said he had been living there since 2004.
