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Acts of Repair

Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights Series

EDITED BY ALEXANDER LABAN HINTON AND NELA NAVARRO

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Lawrence Davidson, Cultural Genocide

Daniel Feierstein, Genocide as Social Practice: Reorganizing Society under the Nazis and Argentinas Military Juntas

Alexander Laban Hinton, ed., Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence

Alexander Laban Hinton, Thomas La Pointe, and Douglas Irvin-Erickson, eds., Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory

Douglas A. Kammen, Three Centuries of Conflict in East Timor

Eyal Mayroz, Reluctant Interveners: Americas Failed Responses to Genocide from Bosnia to Darfur

Walter Richmond, The Circassian Genocide

S. Garnett Russell, Becoming Rwandan: Education, Reconciliation, and the Making of a Post-Genocide Citizen

Victoria Sanford, Katerina Stefatos, and Cecilia M. Salvi, eds., Gender Violence in Peace and War: States of Complicity

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Natasha Zaretsky, Acts of Repair: Justice, Truth, and the Politics of Memory in Argentina

Acts of Repair

JUSTICE, TRUTH, AND THE POLITICS OF MEMORY IN ARGENTINA

NATASHA ZARETSKY

RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Zaretsky, Natasha, 1975 author.

Title: Acts of repair : justice, truth, and the politics of memory in Argentina / Natasha Zaretsky.

Description: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020] | Series: Genocide, political violence, human rights | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020037183 | ISBN 9781978807426 (paperback) | ISBN 9781978807433 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781978807440 (epub) | ISBN 9781978807457 (mobi) | ISBN 9781978807464 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Political violenceArgentina. | Collective memoryArgentina.

Classification: LCC HN270.Z9 V598 2020 | DDC 303.60982dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020037183

A British Cataloging-in-Publication record for this book is available from the British Library.

Copyright 2021 by Natasha Zaretsky

All rights reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without written permission from the publisher. Please contact Rutgers University Press, 106 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. The only exception to this prohibition is fair use as defined by U.S. copyright law.

The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.

www.rutgersuniversitypress.org

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dedicated to the memory of Berta

to the memory of David and Roza

to the memory of Jack

to the memory of Andrea

CONTENTS

1889	First Jews arrive in Argentina on S.S. Weser
1919	Semana Trgica (first antisemitic pogrom in Argentina)
1960	Adolf Eichmann captured in Buenos Aires
19761983	Dictatorship, also known as the Dirty War, that resulted in an estimated 30,000 killed and tortured; more recently called a genocide
1983	Return to democracy
19831989	Ral Alfonsn presidency
1984	CONADEP truth commission publishes Nunca Ms report
1985	Trial of the Juntas
1986	Full Stop Law passed
1987	Law of Due Obedience passed
19891999	Carlos Sal Menem presidency
March 17, 1992	Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires attacked, resulting in twenty-two dead and over two hundred injured
July 18, 1994	AMIA building destroyed with a bomb, resulting in eighty-five people dead and more than three hundred injured
19992003	Presidencies of Fernando de la Ra 19992001; Ramn Puerta 2001; Eduardo Camao 20012002; Eduardo Duhalde 20022003
20012004	First AMIA trial; twenty-two men acquitted on charges related to assisting in the AMIA attack
20032007	Nstor Kirchner presidency
2005	Amnesty laws overturned; human rights trials begin
2005	Inter-American Commission on Human Rights determines that Argentina failed to provide justice in the AMIA case
2006	Jorge Julio Lpez, who had been disappeared and tortured during the dictatorship, is disappeared after testifying in trial against Miguel Etchecolatz
2006	Chief prosecutor in AMIA case, Alberto Nisman, files charges against the government of Iran related to the bombing
20072015	Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner presidency
2007	Interpol issues arrest warrants related to the AMIA bombing, including for officials from Iran and members of Hezbollah
20122017	ESMA megatrial, largest in Argentinas history, focused on crimes against humanity committed at the School of Naval Mechanics (ESMA) torture center during the dictatorship, resulting in forty-eight convictions
2013	Memorandum of Understanding signed between Argentina and Iran to create truth commission to investigate the bombing (ultimately nullified because it was never approved in Iran and determined to be unconstitutional by Argentine courts)

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