Basilio Lami Dozo, Argentine military officer, Died at 88

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Brigadier General (Lieutenant General) Basilio Arturo Ignacio Lami Dozo was born on February 1, 1929, and died on 1, February 2017.

He was a member of the Argentine Air Force.

Dozo took part in the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganisation Process (1976–1983) and, along with Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri and Jorge Isaac Anaya, was a member of the Third Military Junta that ruled Argentina between 1981 and 1982.

Along withReynaldo Bignone and Omar Graffigna, Dozo was one of the last surviving members of the dictatorship.

He was born into a traditional family in the province of Santiago del Estero who are descendants of immigrants from Syria and Lebanon,

He came to the Republic of Argentina before the disappearance of the Ottoman Empire after the World War.

Basilio Lami Dozo Arturo Ignacio passed away at 88 years old.