“Memoria, Verdad y Justicia?”

os informes Nunca Más argentino e uruguaio e a justiça de transição nos anos 1980/1990

Resumen

This paper aims to establish a critical perspective on the development of Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay, based on the impact of the Nunca Más reports, published shortly after the end of their respective military dictatorships. Both countries were recognized for adopting a more forceful approach in prosecuting crimes and human rights violations committed by agents of the repressive regimes. However, in the late 1980s and throughout much of the 1990s, Transitional Justice in these countries was weakened by amnesty laws and presidential and parliamentary pardon decrees. Thus, this article seeks to analyze how the initial success of the Truth Commissions in exposing the crimes of the dictatorships was gradually overshadowed by policies of forgiveness and oblivion, linked to the political and social realities of Argentina and Uruguay.