The Opposition and the Complement between Truth and Justice: the different decisions about Condor Operation taken by Transition Justice in Brazil and Argentina

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Published: Aug 12, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15210/rsulacp.v5i1.16012
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Transition Justice, Truth/Justice, Brazil, Argentina.

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Vanuza Nunes Pereira
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Abstract

Based on a documentary research covering the diplomatic bureaucracy of Brazil and Argentina, coupled with a bibliographic review on transitional justice in the Southern Cone, our goal is to demonstrate the hypothesis of complementarity between truth and justice in the context of mechanisms for the realization of transitional justice. Our review considers the activities of Brazilian and Argentine state agents of the authoritarian regimes in the context of Operation Condor, as well as their subsequent treatment by the Courts of the respective countries, now in a democratic environment. Our results reveal the greater capacity of the Argentine model in the dialectical treatment of the truth/justice binomial, compared to an inefficient national model, centered on the dimension of an opaque truth and still circumscribed by numerous obstacles such as the Amnesty Law and denialism.

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Pereira, V. N. (2019). The Opposition and the Complement between Truth and Justice: the different decisions about Condor Operation taken by Transition Justice in Brazil and Argentina. South American Journal of Political Science, 5(1), 87-108. https://doi.org/10.15210/rsulacp.v5i1.16012
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Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019)
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Author Biography

Vanuza Nunes Pereira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Vanuza Nunes Pereira é mestra em Direito pela Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Pós-graduada em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania pelo Instituto de Direitos Humanos: Promoção, Pesquisa e Intervenção em Direitos Humanos e Cidadania. Bacharel em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade de Itaúna. Nos últimos quatro anos exerceu posição de chefia relacionada à promoção de políticas públicas em direitos humanos, no campo da justiça de transição, direito à verdade e comissões da verdade, junto ao Governo do Estado de Minas Gerais. Foi pesquisadora associada à Rede Latino-Americana de Justiça de Transição por 12 meses. Possui seis anos de experiência diversificada no campo da pesquisa em direitos humanos no Brasil e em outros países. Na docência possui experiência na condução de cursos de curta duração e participação em palestras, simpósios e grupos de trabalho em pós-graduação e graduações de diferentes instituições de ensino superior, nas áreas dos direitos humanos, direito internacional, justiça de transição e direito à verdade.