A really cool video...

The History of Ernesto Che Guevara

I've found on Youtube a really cool video, which I very much encourage you to watch. Please click on the title to be redirected to Youtube. 

Justice, punishment and truth...

  Yesterday I had the wonderful opportunity to meet a handful of women, whom are the wives of some of the military men putted in jail by the Kirchner's regime, for alledge crimes against humanity performed during the last (bloody, horrible, terrible) coup d'etat, back in the 70's.

Before going forward, please let me be real clear to you: I DESPISE, REJECT, REGRET AND CONDEMN such terrible times, completely against the classical liberal line of though I adopt as my ruling philosophy of life.

For exactly that same reason, and due to the fact that classical liberalism understands that the lives, the properties and the liberty of all human beings (not relativism allowed here) are sacred, I condemn the actions of both parties at the terrible civil war that took place in Argentina back then. Both, the military in power and the leftist guerrillas killed, kidnapped, and stole from other individuals. Hence, in  my perspective, the individuals on both sides whom committed those crimes are equally criminals.

Having said that, please let me share with you my experience yesterday. During the release of a book which I have pending reading (but knowing the author personally I can assume that it'll be a joy to read), I've met the wives of three former officers, whom were found guilty by some judges (appointed to the office by Kirchner), and whom are currently in jail.

One of them told me that during the trial, the former military's  (a Malvinas - Falklands war hero) lawyer proved that the accused military was getting married on the date the alleged victim of tortures witness claimed to be tortured by him!! She claimed that on such date, at 8:00 am, she was first tortured by the military accused, but the defense provided with official evidence that that exact date, at 9:00 am, the guy was getting married!! The witness also claimed that the day after, at 8:00 am, she was tortured again by the same defendant. And to that the military's lawyer reply to the Judge: "Your Honor, we have here with us the wife of Lt.__. She could provide us all with detailed information of what  her newly wed husband was doing that day, at that time, which happened to be the first day of their honeymoon". 

Dismissed... The court understood that the evidence provided by the defendant was "circumstantial", and so through the military in jail. The guy, at the time, was... 21 years old.

 I must tell you...It was shocking to see these brave, upheld, and respectable women, crying out for justice to their husbands. When one of them started to sob, the other one approached her saying "Don't cry!! You know what happens when one of us cry..." And as she said it, she herself started to sob also. And so did the third one.

I tended to offer my help, but not as a lawyer, since I don't practice criminal law. But it occurred to me that maybe I could use this blog to let you, the international community, know more about that side of the story, have more information and reach fairer judgments regarding this sad and dark times of Argentine history. And so I though that maybe they could tape a short video, introducing themselves and telling briefly their stories, so I could captioned it in English and post them here.

The three of them, at the very same time, kindly thanked me for the offering, but rejected the idea. Consequences -for me- could be terrible. Persecution, threats, phone calls at late hours advising them to shout up since the caller knew the whereabouts and activities of all their children... nothing that they would putted me through.

I know that some stuff, in that sense, is going on. But don't know, neither have proof of how intense and often happens.

Even though they said that it may have terrible consequences for me to get involved with them and their side of the story, I'll try to convince them to go ahead with the videos project. So hopefully, this is the first post of many more to come, for those of you interested in knowing more about the TRUTH of the terrible civil war that shed our country in blood, long time ago, but not as long as to    set us free of the pain.

Unfortunately, this government realized that it's wonderful business for them to keep the wounds open. This is a very, small, little, humble intend to help moving towards closure and pacification.