Former Paraguay president jailed
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Former Paraguay President Luis Gonzalez Macchi is jailed for eight years for fraud and embezzlement.
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A Paraguay judge calls for the extradition of the country's former military ruler Alfredo Stroessner from Brazil.
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica  - A Costa Rican judge on  Saturday put the former head of the Organization of American  States under house arrest for six months, while he is  investigated for bribery claims, judicial officials said.
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SANTIAGO, Chile - A prosecuting judge on Monday charged former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet with the kidnapping and murder of political opponents in the 1970s and ordered him placed under house arrest.
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A former state senator who was released after serving about three months of a one-year sentence in a bribery scheme was ordered back to jail Friday by a city commission.
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The former White House aide was sentenced to 2-1/2 years in jail, plus a fine of $250,000.
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A former police officer was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for human rights abuses in connection with the 1978 disappearance of a married couple during Argentina's military dictatorship.
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A Paraguayan supermarket chain owner is jailed over a 2004 shop fire in which over 350 people died.
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Deposed President Joseph Estrada was convicted and sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after a landmark six-year trial on charges that he took bribes and kickbacks in office.
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A Kenyan judge has imprisoned a businessman and a former bank executive for two years for fraud, in the first convictions under President Mwai Kibaki&#39;s anti-corruption drive.
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Augusto Pinochet was president of Chile from 1974 to 1990 Chile&#39;s former President Augusto Pinochet [pictured] has been placed under house arrest on human rights charges.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - The chief of former Chilean  dictator Augusto Pinochet's feared secret police was sent to  prison on Friday to serve a 12-year sentence for the kidnapping  and disappearance of a leftist rebel.
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East Timor's prosecutors sought a  seven-year jail sentence for a former interior minister on  Thursday for allegedly giving weapons to civilians led by an  army rebel during a wave of violence last year.
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Ousted Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega returned to federal prison Monday after being hospitalized for irregular blood pressure, a woman at his lawyer's office said.
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  - A retired police   commissioner was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison for   murder, torture and kidnappings during Argentina's "dirty war,"   in one of the first sentences since amnesty laws were scrapped   last year.
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A three-judge panel Wednesday found a former interior minister guilty of fueling violence in East Timor a year ago that ultimately led to the downfall of the government and sentenced him to 7 1/2 years in prison.
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A former Uruguayan dictator was arrested on Monday and charged with secretly transferring political prisoners who later disappeared and are presumed dead, a prosecutor said.