Former Uruguay dictator sentenced

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.

Alvarez, 83, was commander-in-chief of the army in the late 1970s and de facto president from 1980 until shortly before democracy was restored.