Carapintadas

The Carapintadas (in Spanish: " faces peints" because they were blackened the face) were a group of Argentinian soldiers of extreme right-hand side who raised themselves on several occasions between 1987 and 1990 pennies the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín then of Carlos Menem. In December 1986 was voted the Ley de Punto Final (Law of final Point). This law fixed at 60 days the time for the victims of the Guerre salts to carry felt sorry for against of the members of the army and the police force suspectés to be itself made guilty of attacks to the Human rights.

In April 1987, a group of elite of the commandos carried out by the lieutenant-colonel Aldo Rico organized risings of several barracks (of which the school of infantry of Campo of Mayo, in the suburbs of Buenos Aires), claiming the abandonment of the continuations against those which had not been able to profit from an amnesty. The mutineers all were captured, but only two were shut down because the honest armed forces with the government refused to repress the rebellion.

Carapintadas rose again in January 1988 with Monte Caseros (province of Corrientes), always under the command of Aldo Rico. They went a few days later and 300 of them were this time stopped.

Another rising took place in December of the same year, when the members of the special unit Albatros ( Agrupación Albatros ), directed by the colonel Mohamed Alí Seineldín, took the control of several barracks with Villa Martelli. They were followed thereafter by approximately 1000 men coming from the three armed forces. The mutineers went a few days afterwards, but only Seineldín and major Hugo Abete was stopped. Moreover, several of the claims of the mutineers were satisfied by the government.

In October 1989, the president elected Carlos Menem issued an amnesty for several military prisoners, including 39 imprisoned under the military junta and 164 Carapintadas.

In spite of that, on December 3rd, 1990, Mohamed Alí Seineldín organized a new mutiny. Its men seized the general headquarters of the army close to Casa Rosada, required a purging among the generals as well as the promotion of Seineldìn to the rank of commander of the army. The rebellion failed. It made 14 victims and 55 wounded. Seineldín was condemned to death while thirteen other soldiers see themselves inflicting sorrows going from two to twenty years A few days later, Menem issued a general amnesty covering the majority of the people found guilty of misdeeds during the Guerre salts. All the members of the junta being the subject of custodial sentences for crime against humanity were pardoned.

See too

Internal bonds

Argentine
Guerre salts
Histoire of Argentina

External bonds

Argentina, a respectful democracy of the laws or above the laws, UNHCR

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