Madrid
Ricardo Miguel Cavallo, a former Argentine naval officer known as “Serpico,” will be tried in Madrid on charges of genocide and terrorism. Mexico’s Supreme Court this week agreed to allow the extradition of Cavallo, who has been living in Cancun, to Spain to face charges that he ran an Argentine torture camp during that country’s 1976–83 military dictatorship. Tens of thousands of dissidents were kidnapped and tortured during that era. The Mexican ruling is a victory for Spain’s crusading human-rights judge Baltasar Garzon, who campaigned for Cavallo’s extradition. Cavallo will be the first genocide suspect to be extradited to a country other than the one in which the alleged crimes were committed.
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