Michael McPartland 1978. McPartland's first appointment was in the north of Nigeria where he served until 1982 when he returned to the United Kingdom. In 1998 he was sent to Nairobi, Kenya before he was appointed Apostolic Prefect of the Falkland Islands and Ecclesiastic Superior of St. Helena, Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha by Pope John Paul II in August 2002. In 2013, following the election as Pope of Jorge Mario Bergoglio from Argentina (which claims the Falklands to be part of its territory), McPartland stated that "[Bergoglio] must be seen as Pope first and where he comes from should not
Jorge Eduardo Acosta cases against him were re-opened. In August 2006, the Argentine justice decided to take the ESMA case, in which Jorge Eduardo Acosta is to be judged along with Alfredo Astiz and Adolfo Miguel Donda. He is also accused in Italy for crimes committed during the dictatorship against Italian citizens. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by an Argentinian court on October 26, 2011. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment by an Argentinian court on July 5, 2012 for the systematic theft of babies from political prisoners. Jorge Eduardo Acosta Jorge Eduardo Acosta (born 27 May 1941), alias ""el Tigre""