MWith decree 727/2024, published in the Official Gazette, signed by President Javier Milei and the Minister of Justice, Mariano Cúneo Libarona, the right-wing Executive repealed decree 715, of June 9, 2004.
This text had created the Special Unit to investigate “the disappearance of children as a result of state terrorism” within the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi), which was under the authority of the Secretary of Human Rights, a position held since December 2023 by Judge Alberto Baños.
Among the grounds for the decision, the government considered that the aforementioned Special Unit enjoyed “investigative powers, on its own initiative, to identify those responsible for possible criminal acts”, with access and powers considered contrary to the Constitution.
According to the human rights organization Avós da Plaza de Mayo, around 500 babies were stolen by the dictatorship from their parents, most of whom were opponents of the regime, and, in many cases, from mothers who gave birth in clandestine detention and torture centers and who disappeared forever, were murdered or thrown alive, but drugged, into the sea.
In May, the organization expressed its “concern about the offensive [do governo] against the work of the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi)”, founded in 1992, during the Presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-1999).
Subsequently, there were demonstrations against the layoffs and cuts that the Milei government made in areas dedicated to memory spaces and in state entities promoting human rights.
Argentina has become an international example in its work for human rights through the creation of organizations such as the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who searched for their children and grandchildren who disappeared during the last dictatorship.
Furthermore, the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, established by the first president since the return of democracy, Raúl Alfonsín (1983-1989), and the holding of the trial of the military juntas, just two years after the end of the regime, were highlighted at an international level.
Milei’s government disputes the number of missing people of 30,000, which is a consensus among human rights organizations, and only admits to 8,751.
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Source: https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mundo/2615530/milei-acaba-com-investigacao-ao-desaparecimento-de-criancas-durante-ditadura
