Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, 87, Argentina's former economy minister, died Saturday while awaiting sentencing for human-rights abuses during the military dictatorship.
Martinez de la Hoz was Argentina's economy minister from 1976-1981 under military coup leader Gen. Jorge Rafael Videla.
After the dictatorship ended, Martinez de la Hoz was tried for rights abuses. He benefited from a 1990 pardon by then-President Carlos Menem, but the charges were restored after the Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the pardon was unconstitutional.
