the four men denied the charges former Argentine Gen Eduardo Cabanillas has to life in prison for running a notorious detention centre during the military rule in the 1976-83 sentenced been.Three former intelligence agents were convicted also murder, torture and illegal imprisonment.
About 200 left activists were kidnapped and taken to the Automotores Orletti secret prison in Buenos Aires.
Most of the victims were Uruguayan, but there are also Chileans, Bolivians, Peruvians, and Cubans.
Thousands of Argentines were tortured and murdered in other centres of the armed forces.
The crimes were part of Operation Condor, a coordinated campaign by South American military rulers, to crush opposition movements.
Former intelligence agents Honorio Martinez and Eduardo Ruffo were sentenced to 25 years, and former military intelligence officer Raul Guglielminetti got 20 years.
Stolen babyThe sentences welcomed Macarena Gelman, whose parents in secret prison and torture, have been arrested, which was disguised as a mechanical workshop.
She said "It is a little justice if we need so much," from Uruguay.
Her father Marcelo Gelman was to made to Automotores Orletti killed, and his body is then filled in a river in a drum cement.
Her mother María Claudia García, who was pregnant, when she was kidnapped, was later to Uruguay and disappear.
Macarena Gelman was born in captivity and raised by a Uruguayan police officers to discover their true identity only in the year 2000.
Operation Condor was developed in 1975 by military Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
Aim was to silence the opposition, by teams in other countries to track, monitor and kill dissidents.
Some 30,000 people were killed or made by the armed forces disappear during the military rule in Argentina, a period known as the "dirty war".
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