Uruguay's last dictator, General Gregorio Alvarez was sentenced to 25 years of imprisonment for 37 homicides against his political opponents, Vesti TV informs Oct. 23.

The convict could not come to the court due to bad health.

The 83 years-old Alvarez was in power in 1982-1985, and was Commander-in-Chief of the Uruguay Army in the late 1970s.

“The judge also sentenced navy Captain Juan Larcebeau to 20 years in prison for 29 homicides related to clandestine prisoner transfers in 1978. He ruled Uruguay between 1973 and 1985. About 150 Uruguayans disappeared in the secret flights from Argentina in the late 1970s and an additional 29 people went missing in Uruguay, according to a commission of families of the detained and missing,” Belfast Telegraph informs.