On July 18, 1994, at 9:53 in the morning, the headquarters of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), located in the Once neighborhood of the City of Buenos Aires, was destroyed by a violent explosion. He left a balance of 84 people killed, including a pregnant woman, and more than 300 wounds. This fact was established as a tragic milestone in the collective memory of the country. However, thirty -one years later, the path to justice is still full of obstacles and maneuvers that perpetuate impunity.
From the beginning, research on this attack were marked by irregularities and cover -up maneuvers. Juan José Galeano, the first judge in charge of the case, was dismissed in 2004 for corruption, which included payment to a witness to modify his testimony (Carlos Telleldín, who sold the traffic where the explosives, a car reducer with very good relations with the federal police hierarchy and with intelligence services) would have been placed. In 2001, that first oral trial of the cause was canceled. This episode evidenced a pattern of irregularities that deeply affected the search for truth and justice.
Only in 2015 a second judgment known as “Cause Amia II” was held, but as it always denounced Apemia (Association for the clarification of the impunity of AMIA), there the individual responsibilities were judged and not the role of the institutions – the darkest of the State, such as the Police and the intelligence services, without whose actions or omissions an attempt would have been impossible of those characteristics. There was ended by acquitting (February 2019) to former president Carlos Menen, to Rubén Beraja (leader of the DAIA at that time) and Jorge “Fino” Palacios, the former Federal Police who was in charge of that force when the attack happens. Those convicted were the former prosecutors of the annulled trial, Eamon Mullen and José Barbaccia- two old friends of the Pro- with Galeano and who was, in 1994, the head of the Side Hugo Anzorreguy.
That cause was then reviewed to the Criminal Cassation Chamber, which in 2024 confirmed the convictions but reduced the penalties. As Claudia Cinatti affirmed in ideas from the left of that year: “The ruling of the Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber on the cover -up of the AMIA attack is a manual case of how to create a fake news. While the meaning of the ruling, of 711 pages is Israel (1992) and La Amia (1994).
Apart note deserves to appoint here the late prosecutor Nisman, who in that first canceled trial, vitiated of maneuvers, corruption and concealment, worked alongside Mullen and Barbaccia.
The intervention of foreign agencies, such as the CIA and the Mossad (which from the outset over the years gave “clues” to be followed by local services) and the negative of the Argentine State to open all the files related to the case, have contributed to maintain a cloud of impunity on this crime. Governments such as Cristina Kirchner, Mauricio Macri’s and then that of Alberto Fernández raised the “opening of the archives”, but the discretion of what was sent to the UFI (Fiscal Investigation Unit) was in the hands of the services and the Federal Police. Therefore, this opening was never unrestricted, or with direct access by relatives or Human Bodies.
The role of the Argentine State and its institutions in cover -up cannot be overlooked. The performance of the DAIA, far from evidencing a commitment to justice, showed a subordination to the interests of political power- and economic and economic, perpetuating the lack of responses for victims and their families. This situation is aggravated by the position of the current government of Javier Milei, who remains aligned with the United States and Israel under the justification of the “fight against terrorism.”
The latest novelty is the incorporation of the anti -democratic figure of “judgment in absence” ordered by the National Criminal and Correctional Court No. 6, in the interim in charge of Daniel Rafecas. Thanks to the modifications to the Criminal Procedure Code, voted in Congress by the opposition with wig and even a sector of Peronism (the defendants are judged without the possibility that they can attend each and every one of the instances of their own trial and although they are entitled to a review of the sentence, they must be responsible for submitting new evidence, so that this review is admitted. A total nonsense that returns to invest the famous “load of the evidence”. Thus, Rafecas wants to advance in judging Iranians, several of whom were members of the government of the Islamist regime, which all governments accused (very lazy of papers, that is: of evidence), with prosecutor Nisman as mascarón de bow of that accusation, promoted at that time by the PRO and in particular by the today Minister of Security Patricia Bullrich.
It was in the government of Cristina Kirchner when the memorandum of understanding was signed with Iran, ratified by the Argentine Parliament, but not by the Iranian. Although the entire right opposition, the DAIA criticized that memorandum, which motivated CFK to sign it was rather its alignment with US imperialism, which with the Obama government in the front, promoted the agreement with the Persian country of nuclear weapons control, in addition to continuing to preserve state impunity for the ominous crime. Today the world is another, imperialist politics too. Israel’s bombings to Iran, with Trump’s consent, confirm it. The Argentine government of Milei, openly Zionist and unconditional of the North Master, from the outset after them.
Returning to the trial in absence, it was the groups of the relatives of the victims who criticized him. The Civil Association Activa, Appemia and 18J objected that it relies on “Weak evidence, abusive use of intelligence reports (…)”
The reality is that there was always a continuity of cover -up practices, so we must also mobilize demanding or rather, imposing, the creation of an independent research commission, composed of relatives of the victims and human rights organizations, such as the only way to access the truth and achieve real justice. Thirty -one years have passed, and the responsibility of the State and institutions cannot remain ignored. Because memory and fighting are the engine to end impunity. “Justice, justice you will pursue …”.
With an impressive security operation, with ours! Milei will attend the act that will be held at the headquarters of the AMIA, where surely once again he will claim the genocidal state of Israel. Milei relies on the impunity of the State with the crime of AMIA, after an ultra reactionary policy of supporting Israel and his genocide.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
