After his long career as a prosecutor in more than twenty trials for crimes against humanity in several Argentine provinces, Dante Marcelo Vega “Democracy and State Terrorism in Argentina” (Editorial Qellqasqa), a complete volume that covers and analyzes the history of trials for crimes against humanity committed in our country.
In the development of the book, Dante Vega delves into what happened in our country after the return of democracy, determining the period to be tried.
Based on his vast experience in Justice, Vega establishes as a representative figure, as a milestone of the “first modern expression of State terrorism in Argentina” in the 20th century, the dictatorship of José Félix Uriburu, who begins a situation that it will last, in an escalation of violence, until the days of Reynaldo Bignone as the last de facto president of our country.
With solid and documented arguments, with the theory of the two demons, he demolishes the untenable idea of the symmetry of forces between the terrorist State and the armed groups.
The historicization that Vega proposes begins with a framing of what is internationally considered a terrorist State, to give way to a deep analysis of the so-called “transitional” justice, the approaches around it and the emerging discussions of the countries that suffered the state violence, including the lack of collaboration of the dictators, up to the present day, in which the discussion focuses on the preventive detention of the repressors.
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In the development of the book, Dante Vega delves into what happened in our country after the return of democracy, determining the period to be tried and demonstrating with international legal elements the validity of those processes in which Argentina became a pioneer in the trial of dictators
Above all, what Vega does in his book is not only a record of the journey through the trials for crimes against humanity and the role that the democratic State and human rights organizations play in the search for memory, truth, and justice, but also dismantles discourses that currently seem to have gained some strength in conservative and retrograde sectors.
Dante Vega is Doctor in Legal and Social Sciences. He is also a professor of the Law Chair 1 at the University of Mendoza.
With solid and documented arguments, he destroys with the theory of the two demons, the untenable idea of the symmetry of forces between the terrorist State and the armed groups or the prescription of crimes against humanity.
“Argentina still owes itself to an open discussion about the characteristics and representations of the victims and perpetrators during State terrorism,” Vega maintains in one of the chapters of “Democracy and State Terrorism in Argentina,” a book that has become a Necessary document against forgetting.
LIFE AND CAREER
Dante Marcelo Vega was born in Mendoza, Argentina. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences of the National University of Córdoba with the title of Lawyer and Solicitor, in 1989.
He is a specialist in University Teaching at the National University of Cuyo since 1997. In 2002 he obtained the title of Doctor of Legal and Social Sciences at the University of Mendoza.
Dante Vega has a long history that allows him to express himself correctly about a difficult time in Argentina. He is a tenured professor of Criminal Law I at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the University of Mendoza.
He has served as a prosecutor in more than twenty trials for crimes against humanity, in four provinces, including the one related to the “Trelew Massacre “Democracy and State Terrorism in Argentina” by Dante Marcelo Vega.
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