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Argentina seeks Isabel Peron extradition

BUENOS AIRES -- Argentina said Tuesday it has sent Spain an extradition request for former President Isabel Peron, who is wanted for questioning about a disappearance that occurred when death squads terrorized the country during her rule.

The Foreign Ministry said extradition papers were sent at the request of Federal Judge Raul Acosta in Mendoza, who last month ordered Isabel Peron detained for questioning about the February 1976 disappearance of leftist Hector Aldo Fagetti Gallego.

The third wife of three-time president Juan Domingo Peron, Isabel Peron ruled Argentina after the strongman's death for 20 chaotic months until a March 1976 coup...

Isabel Peron also is being investigated by a federal judge in Buenos Aires who said he is focusing on death squad activity predating the 1976 coup...

Prosecutors say at least 1,500 people were killed or went missing as a result of the Argentine Anti-communist Alliance, or "Triple A," death squad during Isabel Peron's rule, what some called the earliest origins of the dirty war.


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