Of all the evil things that dictatorships have shaped and created in human history over the years, it is torture that has left its mark on those who have survived it.
Recently, the country’s Undersecretary for Human Rights, Alberto Baños, once again questioned the figure of 30,000 missing persons that the majority of Argentine society had accepted as an ominous corollary to the last civilian-military dictatorship in our country. Many of these thirty thousand must have been tortured. Indelible marks remained on bodies that were never found.
Baños conveyed to the United Nations Committee against Torture the ideas of right that govern our country today. There is nothing new if we take into account that when Mauricio Macri was at the head of the government, he discredited organizations that had been fighting for human rights for many years, and which the former president described as “action.”
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The practice of professional and critical journalism is an essential pillar of democracy. This is why it bothers those who believe they are the bearers of the truth.
What is new about Miley’s government is that it voted against eliminating torture.
We are talking about an unprecedented event in the democratic history of our country. We are witnessing a situation that, far from being merely anecdotal, sets back many years of democracy. Postponing the vote against torture by the government. It leaves a large majority of the population who certainly oppose torture without a means of livelihood.
Baños did not carry our country’s democratic traditions to the United Nations. This was dictated to go against the interest of our community.
Moreover, as a main goal, the Under Secretary for Human Rights was to further deepen the now more than just “physical relations” between Trump and Milley. Baños joined the vote of the United States and Israel, the other two countries that voted against torture. Baños added another seam to one of the vertices of the “iron triangle” to which Maile linked his international policy.
The economic support the United States provided to Milley had to be paid back at the moment when his future and the future of his government were at stake. There are no dollars in the central bank’s coffers that can immediately cancel the loans owed to the northern power. “There is no money,” Miley said at the beginning of his term.
If there is no money, there will be no dignity either.
It seems that the government does not care much about dignity. He doesn’t seem to care much about the construction our country has been through and stands up to torture.
Today the government is governed by economic pressure. The inevitable need to obtain Trump’s approval and for the latter to be the necessary help for Miley’s adventure.
Our country has been left to face the rest of the world with profound denial, the effects of which still linger.