Argentine Exiles and the Struggles for Justice (1976-1981)

The article analyzes the manners in which the Argentine exiles appealed to the juridical strategy as form of antidictatorial resistance, departing from the denunciation of the functioning of the Judicial Power and the claim of respect of the rights and procedural fundamental guarantees, up to managi...

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Main Author: Jensen, Silvina
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Estudios Avanzados 2017
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/restudios/article/view/19126
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Summary:The article analyzes the manners in which the Argentine exiles appealed to the juridical strategy as form of antidictatorial resistance, departing from the denunciation of the functioning of the Judicial Power and the claim of respect of the rights and procedural fundamental guarantees, up to managing to propose a "Núremberg" in which the violations were proceeded to the human rights that were taking place in the country. The work supports that in the conjuncture delimited by the approval of the dictatorial laws on "missing persons" (September, 1979), the publication of the report of the visit to the Argentina of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights of the Organization of American States (April, 1980) and the political alternatives that surroundedcommemoration of the 5th anniversary of the coup d'état (March 24, 1981), the exiles began to glimpse to the justice (national or international) as a horizon - diffuse but credibly - in that to look for punishment for the perpetrators of crimes against the life, the freedom and the integrity of the argentinians and especially for those responsible for most abject crime of the terrorist State: the enforced disappearance of persons.