José Nino Gavazzo (2 October 1939 – 26 June 2021) was a Uruguayan army colonel.
[1] He was a member of the Servicio de Información y Defensa (SID).
[2] Gavazzo was chief of the Uruguayan branch of Operation Condor and took part in the forced disappearance of the stepdaughter of Juan Gelman in Germany.
[3] Under the government of Tabaré Vázquez, he was convicted of the illegal transfer of people kidnapped in Argentina and detained in a clandestine detention center [es].
[2] José Nino Gavazzo died from a stroke in Montevideo on 26 June 2021 at the age of 81.