Abstract

The political impunity in Argentine society today stems from a history of injustice and corruption. Much of this impunity has been influenced by the last military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. The military began a new political system and instituted a state terrorism, in which anyone who was part of an organization or group against the military was forcibly disappeared, tortured and eventually killed. After the dictatorship fell, the trials brought before the accused eventually ended and resulted in two laws giving immunity to the guilty and pardons to the already punished. With this lack of punishment for heinous crimes, forms of political injustice and disappearance of adversaries have been present in Argentina. Human rights organizations are fighting to remember the injustices done to the victims of the state terror such as the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. The best way to reduce the political impunity in Argentina is to remember the history of the oppressed during the last military dictatorship and hold the oppressors responsible in order clarify that it should not be ignored or tolerated in today’s society.