Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla was convicted and jailed for 50 years for a systematic plan to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed during the military junta’s war on left-wing dissenters 30 years ago.

Former Argentine dictator Jorge Rafael Videla has admitted for the first time that the country’s brutal 1976-83 dictatorship “disappeared” leftist opponents, a euphemism for kidnapped and murdered, and said that babies were taken from their parents.