That same April the mutinous military

With the threat of the carapintadas in who opposed the trials for crimes against human rights that the civil justice system was carrying out it seemed that this strategy of retroactive justice that had generated so much enthusiasm in society was beginning to falter..  asked that Alfonsn himself and not the ministers that until then the president had sent to negotiate with the insurgents appear before them in person. After praying in the chapel of the Casa Rosada Alfonsn boarded a helicopter that took him to Campo de Mayo. There are no records of what happened at that meeting but the president returned a few hours later and addressed the protesters who were in the Plaza de Mayo.



The house is in order and today there is no blood in Argentina he Russia Mobile Number List them in a famous phrase and then ordered them to return to their homes. The military surrendered and a few days later Alfonsn sent the Due Obedience Law project to Congress which limited the scope of trials for lowranking soldiers involved in crimes committed under the dictatorship which was interpreted as a surrender of the president before military pressure. From that moment on Alfonsn lost the support of a wide spectrum of political actors including leftwing and centerleft intellectuals.










In a rather unique episode of communion between ideas and politics intellectuals played a fundamental role in the transition. A first circle of thinkers was made up of those who worked on the governments human rights strategy among whom Nino Jaime Malamud Goti and Martn Farrell stood out. A second broader group which maintained a certain distance from the government but which nevertheless produced a renewal in political ideas was made up of what could be called the social democratic intelligentsia.