Human rights, press and politics in early postdictatorial era. The weekly El Periodista de Buenos Aires, from CONADEP report to Nunca Más book
This paper deals with the approach to Human Rights issue in postdictatorial times by political weekly El Periodista de Buenos Aires, published from 1984, in its early steps. We analyze the coverage of the ending of activities, the delivery of the Executive Power-created Comisión Nacional sobre la De...
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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades. Escuela de Historia
2022
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/RIHALC/article/view/37866 |
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| Sumario: | This paper deals with the approach to Human Rights issue in postdictatorial times by political weekly El Periodista de Buenos Aires, published from 1984, in its early steps. We analyze the coverage of the ending of activities, the delivery of the Executive Power-created Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (CONADEP) report and the later launch of the book Nunca Más.
Results of the research include the editorial stance about Human Rights, divided between two aspects. First, its support to the CONADEP, demonstrated in the abridged transcription of the Comisión press reports and by the interviewing of core members. Secondly, EP at the same time was responsive to moderate fractions of Human Rights Movement that were critical of the official strategies to research and legal processing of the crimes of State terror during the military dictatorship (1976-1983), and additionally, to the creation, institutional responsibilities and final outcomes of the labor of the Comisión. Also, it is concluded that the diffusion by the magazine of an unofficial list of perpetrators, not included in final report of CONADEP, led to a public controversy with the government, and permitted EP to defend itself based on its role as a media. Also to concentrate readers’ attention on ecclesiastical complicity with the dictatorship, as a part of civil participation in political repression. Finally, the critical review of the official launching of Nunca Más book allowed EP to share the questionings to the Government sphere from Human Rights organizations in face of their hesitant specific policies. |
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