Mercedes, Buenos Aires
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Mercedes is a city in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It is located 100 km west from Buenos Aires and 30 km southwest of Luján. It is the administrative headquarters for the district of Mercedes as
Catedral Basílica de Mercedes-Luján, built in 1904, a National Historic Monument since 2010
Municipal building
Statue of Bartolomé Mitre
Church of Saint Patrick
Jorge Rafael Videla
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General Jorge Rafael Videla was an Argentine general, politician and dictator who served as the president of Argentina from 1976 to 1981 during the National Reorganization Process.
Mercedes, Buenos Aires
…and journalists. Nevertheless, it is most known as the town where president Héctor José Cámpora was born as well as the military dictator and president Jorge Rafael Videla. The city was organized by a-hundred-meters-long square blocks (as a Roman castra). The streets are numbered with even numbers from South to North and…
Official portrait, 1976
Videla and Alberto Tarantini after the match
Videla at the opening of 1976's "Exposición Rural" in Palermo, Buenos Aires.
Videla with U.S. President Jimmy Carter at the White House on 9 September 1977