Talk:Jorge Rafael Videla
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The Clarin article referenced as a source for the figure of 5,000 Desaparecidos doesn't back up this claim. It actually states that an organisation compiled a list of over 5500 people that had disappeared. The Clarin article states that the organisation believed the list to be incomplete (and most likely to be innacurate) - there is no suggestion that the list was meant as an estimate of the numbers of people who disappeared.
The Clarin article also states that 13,000 people have been officially registered as Desaparecidos, but there is no mention of this being an estimate of the disappeared either.
However, as the article also provides no basis for the '5000', and as this is a contentious issue (someone will certainly update the figure and hopefully provide a proper source), I've updated the figure to 13,000.
Lost in space (talk) 18:09, 26 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Was Mr. Videla born on 02 Aug or 21 Aug? If it is on the 21 Aug, then why is cataloged as being an individual dated 02 Aug?
Is is possible to remove the "president" box? He was not a President, he was a Dictator. And a really nasty one.
Is it possible to move the essay to a separate page on the Dirty War?Vancouverguy 00:11, 18 Sep 2003 (UTC)
It would be nice to include some more information on Videla's initial 1985 sentencing, subsequent pardon, and 1998 prison sentence and house arrest. Some of this is included in the Dirty war article and the spanish-version article.
This page needs a lot of
I'm going to place a request of sources and reference on this article. Most of it seems fine, but I've never heard of 500,000 exiled Argentinians. 30,000 as estimate of desaparecidos is sort of common knowledge in Argentina, but should be sourced properly for the benefit of the general reader. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 10:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
I think those 500,000 emigrants might be too much. The exodus actually started after the 1966 military government, but I haven't been able to find much. And it seams that the 21st century exodus was far bigger than that of the Dirty War. Mariano(t/c) 12:13, 19 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Anon comment on Cruyff's decition not to participate of the WC 1978:
Mariano(t/c) 10:10, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Do we really need the piece of trivia at the end? It trivializes the issues at stake, in my opinion. My Lord, and the score is even included.Landrumkelly 12:08, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That part of the article is apparently untouchable. At least I don't see how to edit it. Surely to say that we was the "self-proclaimed" president would be a more defensible way to open this article, since "president" (in lieu of "dictator") gives a sense of legitimacy to his rule. HE WAS A DICTATOR. Landrumkelly 12:17, 1 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What does this article refer with "suspected to be a female"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.232.253.81 (talk) 01:59, 3 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I recently heard that Argentinians used to call him the "Pink Panther" because he seemed to move and behave a lot loke the cartoon character - can anyone verify that claim? -- 134.102.101.64 (talk) 22:07, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Never heard of it, and I'm 31 years old (lived all my life in Argentina) [A] 23:32, 23 December 2010 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ariel ALB (talk • contribs)
The book " The Crisis of Argentine Capitalism" by Paul H. Lewis, has on page 448,this text:"General Jorge Videla, head of the military government that supplanted Isabel Perón, was Argentina's twenty-first president since 1930.His task was to restore order to a political economy in which violence and chaos had become endemic.Terrorism had reached the point where political assassinations were happening on the average of one every eighteen hours.At the same time, the economic picture could not have been more dismal.The annual rate of inflation had reached 920 percent, gross domestic production was down by 4.4 percent in the first quarter of 1976, and fixed gross investment was down by 16.7 percent.The budget deficit was enormous(equaling 13.5 percent of the GDP), and a balance of payments deficit of around $600 million exceeded the treasury's exchange reserves, making a default quite possible." Agre22 (talk) 19:29, 5 March 2009 (UTC)agre22[reply]
I am disputing the neutrality of this article. I have already requested that the article be removed until the problems are fixed. This is an article about a living person and as such the author should have been extra careful in ensuring that the facts had citations and that citations could be verified. Of the few citations included, several refer back to a website that is clearly biased against General Videla and the military government of the 70s. I’d love to help improve this article with some time.Tiempodepaz (talk) 01:42, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The book Guerrillas and generals describes this Argentine as a honest, but misguided ruler. He never robbed money and he wipped out terrorist groups such as Montoneros and ERP. At same time, he became linked to criminals such as then Admiral Emilio Massera and made a bad economy work. To have neutrality about Jorge Rafael Videla is very difficult task. Beyond doubt he was far worse than Pinochet, in anything, except human rights, where both were equal.Agre22 (talk) 02:31, 15 November 2009 (UTC)agre22[reply]
The article improperly states the rank of Mr. Videla, given that he was stripped of all ranks and honors in 1985 (an important fact that it also fails to mention). I won't commit the change myself because I'm unsure about the proper vocabulary in English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.193.81.216 (talk) 23:30, 10 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The article says he died "in his sleep". That may be correct, but this AP story (http://bigstory.ap.org/article/argentine-ex-dictator-jorge-videla-dies-prison) says that "he died while sitting on the toilet". Should this be included? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.84.181.38 (talk) 04:39, 31 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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To frequent visitors of this page,
I have just discovered that the introduction to this page has been copied word for word from the book "20 Dictators of the World" by Kalyani Mukherjee. Every word from the book is the exact same in the introduction. Has anyone else noticed this?
-Ryan1783
can be defined as "a form of radical, right-wing, authoritarian ultranationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe" from our own article here on WP. Videla seems to fit pretty well under this definition. Additionally, both contemporary and retrospective sources defined him as such. Since we have an anonymous IP editor reverting the title, I've prospectively taken to include some sources. Here are a few:
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Nothing supports the claim that Videla was a fascist, he was just a regular military dictator like Pinochet and others in Latin America at the time. -- 2804:248:f6d2:5500:dd76:f44b:7d31:bd8 (talk) 05:54, 13 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]