Cristino Nicolaides
Cristino Nicolaides | |
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Cristino Nicolaides in the early 1980s. | |
| Born | 2 January 1925 Córdoba, Argentina |
| Died | 22 January 2011 (aged 86) Córdoba, Argentina |
| Cause of death | Pneumonia |
| Allegiance | Argentina |
| branch | Argentine Army |
| Years of service | 1944–2011 |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
| Commands | Commander-in-chief of the Argentine Army; Member of the Argentine Military Junta (along with Rubén Oscar Franco and Augusto Jorge Hughes) |
| Known for | Repression |
| Awards | Gran Oficial de la Orden El Sol del Perú |
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Cristino Nicolaides (2 January 1925 – 22 January 2011) was an Argentine military officer who belonged to his country's army. He held power as a member of the Argentine Military Junta from 1982 to 1983. Representing the Argentine Army, he took power after Argentina's defeat in the Falklands War, in the last phase of the Dirty War, waged by the self-styled National Reorganization Process (that is, the said junta).
In 2007, within the framework of the Causa Contraofensiva (proceedings involving charges relating to crimes committed against Montoneros), he was sentenced to 25 years in prison, and in 2008, he was spared another trial, but until the day he died, he had to live under house arrest, accused in various criminal cases. Even by the time of Nicolaides's death, the sentence against him in the Causa Contraofensiva was not final; so he kept his military status and went on receiving his Army pension.