Former Uruguayan President-turned-dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry died early today at home, where he was serving a 30-year sentence for killings and disappearances during his country’s war against so-called subversives. He was 83.

Former dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry was sentenced to 30 years in prison for violating the constitution when he led a 1973 coup that began 12 years of dictatorship in Uruguay, the prosecutor said.

Uruguay’s last dictator, Gregorio Alvarez, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for 37 homicides during the nation’s 1973-1985 military regime, when dissidents disappeared in a region-wide crackdown on leftists called Operation Condor.