Former Argentine dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla has died at the age of 87. Videla was serving a life sentence for murder, torture and kidnapping under his regime. He helped lead the military coup that unseated President Isabel Perón in 1976. He later served five years in prison before a presidential pardon set him free in 1990. Two decades later, he was retried and sentenced to life behind bars. Estela de Carlotto of the human rights group, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, criticized Videla for refusing to account for the whereabouts of those who disappeared under his watch, including the babies of political prisoners taken from their biological parents.

Estela de Carlotto: “We feel so relieved, but at the same time this weight, because he didn’t speak or contribute to us knowing where those 30,000 people that we are looking for are, or the whereabouts of the 400 grandchildren that the Grandmothers [of Plaza de Mayo] are still looking for, who are disappeared and are alive. There was not a scrap, not a single word to help with this search; on the contrary, he reaffirmed those crimes.”

Videla died while being tried for his role in Operation Condor, a coordinated effort by Latin American military rulers to target their political opponents in the 1970s and 1980s. Another former dictator, Reynaldo Bignone, remains on trial in the case.