Jorge Anaya

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Jorge Anaya
Anaya in 1976
Born ( 1926-09-27 ) 27 September 1926
Bahia Blanca , Argentina
Died 9 January 2008 (2008-01-09) (aged 81)
Buenos Aires , Argentina
Allegiance   Argentina
Service/ branch   Argentine Navy
Years of service 1947?1982
Rank Admiral
Unit Missile Frigate Division
Battles/wars Falklands War

Admiral Jorge Isaac Anaya (27 September 1926 – 9 January 2008) was an Argentine admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine Navy . He was born in Bahia Blanca , in the province of Buenos Aires . He participated in the right-wing military dictatorship known as the National Reorganisation Process (1976?1983) and, along with Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Basilio Lami Dozo , was a member of the Third Military Junta that ruled Argentina between 1981 and 1982. He was the main architect and supporter of a military solution for the long-standing claim over the Falkland Islands that led to the Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra de las Malvinas ). [1]

Career [ edit ]

In 1955, Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant Anaya participated in the coup against president Juan Domingo Peron . He was known to torture dissidents and new conscripts, and was recruited by the CIA for a covert anti-Communist programme in 1962. [2]

He later served as Argentina's naval attache in London, United Kingdom between 1964 and 1967. He commanded an anti-submarine Frigate between 1967 and 1970, a Destroyer Escort squadron between 1970 and 1972, and a guided missile frigate squadron between 1972 and 1974. Between 1974 and 1976 he was the chief of the Naval Police and Naval Intelligence [2]

In 1976, during the first part of the new military regime , Anaya was Chief of Naval Operations.

In December 1981, there was a change in the dictatorship bringing to office a new junta headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri . Anaya then, as commander-in-chief of the navy, ordered Vice-Admiral Juan Lombardo to create a plan to seize the Falkland Islands which both presented to the new acting president. [3]

During the 1982 war he devised and commanded Operation Algeciras , in which Argentine commandos were to sabotage a Royal Navy warship harboured in Gibraltar ; the plan was thwarted at the last minute when communications were intercepted. [4]

In the 1985 Trial of the Juntas he was acquitted of charges of kidnapping, torture, enslavement, concealing the truth, usurpation of power, and false declarations. [5]

In 1997, the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon requested the arrest and extradition of 45 members of the Argentine military, and one civilian, for crimes of genocide , state terrorism , and torture committed during the " Dirty War " period of the de facto regime, including Anaya. [6] The request was denied on several occasions by the democratically elected Argentine government, which argued that it was inadmissible on grounds of inapplicable jurisdiction.

On 27 July 2003, by means of Decree 420/03, President Nestor Kirchner amended the criteria under which the extraditions had been refused, ordering that the legal proceedings requested by the Spanish courts go ahead and thus enabling the extraditions to proceed. [7]

In August 2003, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar ordered the cessation of the extradition proceedings for crimes committed in Argentina under the de facto regime. That decision was later overturned by the Supreme Court in 2005, [8] which ordered that Garzon's requested extraditions continue. In November 2006, while waiting to be interrogated by an examining magistrate, Anaya suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the naval hospital; he remained under house arrest after his discharge from hospital, but was never deemed fit enough to stand trial.

He died on 9 January 2008 while under house arrest on charges of human rights violations. [9]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ [ Malvinas, la trama secreta . Oscar Cardoso, Ricardo Kirschbaum, Eduardo Van Der Kooy]
  2. ^ a b "Murio Jorge Isaac Anaya, impulsor de Malvinas" . Perfil . 10 January 2008. Archived from the original on 29 December 2018 . Retrieved 30 June 2019 .
  3. ^ " Yo estoy convencido que Galtieri no tenia ni idea de Malvinas. No habra pasado una semana y con Anaya vamos a ver a Galtieri. Hasta ese momento el unico enterado era yo " . Archived from the original on 2011-07-22 . Retrieved 2009-09-03 .
  4. ^ Operacion Algeciras , Alberto "Duffman" Lopez, Por Tierra Mar y Aire
  5. ^ Resolucion de la Camara Federal en la causa N° 13/84 [ Federal House Resolution in case No. 13/84 ] (in Spanish)
  6. ^ "Auto de procesamiento de Marinos argentinos por genocidio - Espanha" . www.derechos.org .
  7. ^ Argentina al rojo vivo tras la decision del presidente Kirchner de habilitar la extradicion de militares acusados de violaciones a los derechos humanos Archived 2007-09-26 at the Wayback Machine , El Espectador , 27 July 2003
  8. ^ Corte Suprema espanola ordeno pedir extradicion de militares argentinos , 22 July 2005
  9. ^ Harding, Colin (16 January 2008). "Obituary: Rear-Admiral Jorge Anaya: Argentine naval commander" . The Independent . Independent News and Media Limited. Archived from the original on January 17, 2008 . Retrieved 2008-01-17 .

Sources [ edit ]

Translated, in part, from the corresponding article on the Spanish-language Wikipedia .

External links [ edit ]

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