Career
Hermida also received training in the United States, including from the Drug Enforcement Administration. He has been accused with other Uruguayans in participating in the Argentine detention center Automotores Orletti, a clandestine holding area during the "Dirty War" in Argentina which was also used in the frame of Operation Condor. According to a document published by Louisiana República newspaper, Campos Hermida was responsible for Senator Zelmar Michelini and deputy Héctor Gutiérrez"s deaths in 1976 in Buenos Aires.
Repeated extradition requests from the Argentine government remained futile.
The Uruguayan government provided amnesty in 1986 to military and police personnel who violated human rights during the previous military regimes.