The Economic Accomplices to the Argentine Dictatorship

ISBN-13: 9781107534742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 416 str.

Horacio Verbitsky; Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky

Opis

This book uncovers how banks, individuals, and companies worked as economic accomplices to the oppressive Argentinian dictatorship.

Spis treści

Introduction: state terrorism and the economy: from Nuremberg to Buenos Aires Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Part I. Past and Present Economic Complicity: 1. Why was the economic dimension missing for so long in transitional justice? An exploratory essay Naomi Roht-Arriaza; 2. Accountability for corporate complicity in human rights violations: Argentina's transitional justice innovation? Leigh A. Payne and Gabriel Pereira; Part II. Theoretical Framework and International Dimension: 3. Economic ideas and power during the dictatorship Mariana Heredia; 4. Foreign powers, economic support, and geopolitics Jorge E. Taiana; Part III. The Macroeconomics of the Dictatorship: 5. The legacy of the dictatorship. The new pattern of capital accumulation, deindustrialization, and the decline of the working class Eduardo M. Basualdo; 6. Public finances Alfredo F. Calcagno; 7. Complicity of the lenders Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; Part IV. Complicity and the Law: 8. Corporate complicity and legal accountability. Report of the International Commission of Jurists International Commission of Jurists Expert Panel; 9. Corporate responsibility for complicity. International and local perspectives Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky; 10. Statute of limitations on actions for complicity Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, Agustín Cavana and Leonardo Filippini; Part V. Company Ordered Disappearances: 11. The cases of Ford and Mercedes Benz Victoria Basualdo, Tomás Ojea Quintana and Carolina Varsky; 12. Acindar and Techint. Extreme militarization of labor relations Victorio Paulón; 13. Between historical analysis and legal responsibility: the Ledesma case Alejandra Dandan and Hannah Franzki; 14. Contributions to the analysis of the role of labor leadership in worker repression in the 1970s Victoria Basualdo; 15. Suppression of workers rights Héctor Recalde; Part VI. Industrial and Agricultural Businesss Associations: Complicity and Benefits: 16. Industrial economic power as promoter and beneficiary of Argentina's refounding project (1976–83) Martín Schorr; 17. The complicity of the agricultural business chambers Mario Rapoport and Alfredo Zaiat; Part VII. Illegal Appropriation of Companies: 18. Organized pillaging Federico Delgado; 19. The National Securities Commission and the assault on 'economic subversion' Alejandra Dandan; 20. The Papel Prensa case. Notes for a study Andrea Gualde; Part VIII. A Range of Generous and Interested Supports: 21. The media: uniform discourse and business deals under cover of state terrorism Damián Loreti; 22. The price of the Church's blessing Horacio Verbitsky; 23. The hidden Italy connection Claudio Tognonato; 24. The lawyers. From repression to neoliberalism Horacio Verbitsky; Conclusion: outstanding debts to settle. Work agenda Horacio Verbitsky and Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky.