Alfredo Astiz

Who is Alfredo Astiz?

Alfredo Ignacio Astiz was a Commander, intelligence officer, Marine and maritime commando in the Argentine Navy during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional. He was known as El Ángel Rubio de la Muerte, and had a reputation as a notorious torturer. He was discharged from the military in 1998 after defending his actions in a press interview.

He was a member of GT 3.3.2 based in the Naval Mechanics School in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War of 1976-1983. The school was adapted as a secret detention and torture center for political prisoners. As many as 5,000 political prisoners were interrogated, tortured and murdered in the ESMA during those years. GT3.3.2 was involved in some of the 8,961 deaths and other crimes documented by a national commission after the restoration of democratic government in Argentina in 1983.