The Economist analyzes Uruguay’s debate on rejecting the “Expiration Law”

Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 04:26 UTC

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Néstor Kirchner Argentina’s late former president first became popular by pushing for the repeal of the amnesties and pardons that prior governments had granted to members of the country’s bloody 1976-83 dictatorship. Argentines cheered when the Supreme Court ruled the laws unconstitutional in 2005, and have supported the hundreds of prosecutions for human-rights abuses that have been launched since then. Read full article

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“confrontational Argentine neighbours, and credit the law with cementing the country’s peaceful transition to democratic rule.” There is nothing wrong with confrontation, if you've done nothing wrong, then there is nothing to be scared of.
Peaceful transition to democratic rule? That means, “let those criminals live in peace, now they are poor old people” :(
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