Argentina jails ex-military officers for crimes during dictatorship

FILE PHOTO: Veronica Castelli wears buttons with pictures of her parents who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship, at a court hearing where prison sentences were handed out to former military officers for crimes committed in a clandestine detention centre known as Vesubio during the dictatorship, in Buenos Aires, Argentina April 1, 2022. REUTERS/Mariana Nedelcu/File Photo

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - An Argentine judge sentenced 19 former military officers to prison on Wednesday for crimes against humanity committed during the country's brutal military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s, including for kidnappings of auto plant workers.

The latest trials in Argentina follow last week's Colombian truth commission report, following that South American country's decades-long bloody internal conflict, as pent up demands for justice yield some gains.