Abduction In Argentina

Words: 824
Pages: 4

In times of societal distress kayos begins to culminate within its countries citizens; this kayos eventually, if not resolved, turns into fear and unrest which transcends among its people. It is that countries obligation, primality its government institution, to protect its citizens. In addition, to punish these individuals who are implementing fear and kayos into individuals lives. Abduction and torture are two components that took Argentina in both the mid-1970s to the early 1980s by storm. During this period of time an increase in abduction arose causing the government of Argentina to create what is known as the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP; essentially this institution had three main objectives: prevent, …show more content…
After a series of falls and uprising of leaders and military coup d’etats occurring, eventually politician Raul Alfonsin took succession, after Isabel Peron, in becoming President of Argentina in the 1983 elections. During Alfonsin’s early Presidential career, he conceived the CONADEP in response to the reoccurring —almost second nature—abductions, that have by this time been occurring for roughly for thirteen years. During this period of abductions not all the stories, generally, do not end as bad as others do. Rather then ending all in a similar way, they are similar in the methods they use, both for, the disappearances and the torture inflicted on innocent citizens. Victims of such crimes would go to the CONADEP and testify the incident that occurred, the CONADEP states that, a “typical sequences was: abduction, disappearance, [and] torture” (ONLINE). For starters, this is not surprising that a typical routine among the abductions are abduction, disappearance, and torture; what is interesting to not is that is that within these testimonies it states: “often prior