Last dictator of Argentina died

buenos aires - The last dictator of Argentina, Reynaldo Bignone, passed away at the age of ninety. The central military hospital in Buenos Aires confirmed the death of the former general, but did not reveal anything about the cause of death.

The soldier came to power in 1982 after the Falkland war won by Great Britain. Bignone stayed for more than a year. He oversaw the transition from a dictatorship to a democracy, wrote elections and in 1983 handed over power to his democratically elected successor Rául Alfonsín.

The military dictatorship in Argentina lasted from 1976 to 1983. In that period, according to human rights organizations, tens of thousands of people disappeared without trace. Critics of the regime were tortured and thrown out of planes. Bignone later had to account for human rights violations. He was found guilty.