The resignation reopens the debate in the field of human rights after months of cuts, internal conflicts and harsh questions about his administration
04/12/2025 – 12:35 pm
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Lawyer Alberto Baños On Thursday, he submitted his formal and irrevocable resignation from his position Undersecretary of the Ministry of Human Rights Subordinate Ministry of Justice, A position he reached in July 2024.
His departure comes after months of controversy over… Empty the area And for the statements that were attributed Crimes of the last dictatorship.
Space was reduced to a minimum and management was under fire
Baños took over in the midst of an internal restructuring process, a process that led to the cutting of more than Two-thirds of the General Secretariat The body structure is significantly reduced.
since then, The Undersecretary was at the center of criticism for his adherence to this Crimes committed between 1976 and 1983 were “isolated transgressions” It is not a systematic repressive plan, which is a position he repeated even before that United Nations Human Rights Committee In September 2024, Provoking rejection inside and outside the country.
Throughout his administration, he was also unable to complete key positions in the region or reverse the resulting internal climate Large-scale layoffs And who In the presence of members of the Federal Police Control access to the building located in exESMA.
– Conflicts over memory spaces and questions about decisions
Tensions with workers and human rights organizations worsened when, at the beginning of the year, His secretary, who I contacted WhatsApp closing Haroldo Conte Center for Cultural Memory And license all its employees. Although Baños publicly confirmed that the place would reopen, that never happened.
In addition, he ordered the suspension of some memorial days that were being held. In the same February, he canceled a concert promoted by human rights organizations at exESMA and filed a lawsuit against him. Prevent events in the mouseOr the Mar del Plata Memory Site.
International lawsuits and judicial disputes
His latest controversial intervention was promotion Friendly Agreement before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Which sought to classify the actions committed by guerrilla organizations as crimes against humanity.
In parallel, support the efforts of judges Leopoldo Bruglia and Pablo Bertozzi – who were transferred during the government of Mauricio Macri – to remain in their positions in the Federal Chamber.
Reasons for resignation and its political implications
According to sources in the Ministry of Justice. Baños resignation responds to growth Disagreements with Minister Mariano Cuneo Libarona, who called for a more stringent alignment with the policy ofRemoving ideology“And the one who promotes it is good Javier Miley.
The Undersecretary’s resignation represents the second major resignation within the ministry in less than a year, deepening internal movement in one of the most sensitive areas of the government.
Who is Alberto Baños?
Alberto Baños’ career in the judiciary, which spanned several decades, linked him to files of significant public impact: Since the case of stealing my hand, JJuan Domingo Perongoes through a hardcore crime Mariano FerreiraUntil the investigation into the disappearance of a Buenos Aires officer Arshak is a hatern.
Baños obtained his law degree from UBA in 1987, although his court career had begun a decade earlier, in 1977, when he joined the civilian judiciary during the last military dictatorship.