1. Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone was an Argentine general who served as the de facto President of Argentina from 1 July 1982 to 10 December 1983, the last president to serve under the National Reorganization Process.
17 Facts About Reynaldo Bignone
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Reynaldo Bignone was the dictator who ordered the destruction of all documentation on the disappeared.
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Reynaldo Bignone's parents were Adelaida Maria, of Gibraltarian and French descent, and Reynaldo Rene Bignone, of Italian and German descent.
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Reynaldo Bignone studied at the Superior School of War and in Francoist Spain before being appointed head of the VI Infantry Regiment in 1964.
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Reynaldo Bignone was married to Nilda Raquel Belen Etcheverry, who died in 2013.
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Reynaldo Bignone was President of Argentina appointed by the military junta from July 1982 to December 1983, when democracy returned to Argentina.
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Reynaldo Bignone's loosening of certain free speech restrictions put his regime's unpopularity in evidence and the newsstands brimmed with satirical publications.
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Reynaldo Bignone chose Domingo Cavallo to head the Argentine Central Bank and Jose Maria Dagnino Pastore a liberal as Economy Minister.
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The convention was called only days after Reynaldo Bignone publicly announced the scheduling of elections.
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Careful to avoid the appearance of endorsement of any one candidate, Reynaldo Bignone oversaw the shredding of documents and other face-saving measures, such as generous new wage guidelines.
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Reynaldo Bignone published a memoir about his brief tenure, El ultimo de facto.
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Reynaldo Bignone was granted house arrest in October 2006, given his advanced age.
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Reynaldo Bignone was arrested in March 2007 and taken into custody at a military base outside Buenos Aires as part of an investigation into past human rights abuses, including the atrocities at the Posadas Hospital and trafficking of infants born to and abducted from the roughly 500 pregnant women who were among the disappeared.
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On 14 April 2011, Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced to life in prison for crimes against humanity.
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On 29 December 2011 Reynaldo Bignone received an additional 15-year prison sentence for crimes against humanity for setting up a secret torture center inside a hospital during the 1976 military coup.
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On 5 July 2012, Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his participation in a scheme to steal babies from parents detained by the military regime and place them with friends of the regime.
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Reynaldo Bignone died of congestive heart failure in Buenos Aires on the morning of 7 March 2018 at the age of 90; he had recently been admitted to the military hospital with a hip fracture.