Pressing Charges

In July, the courts order the arrest of Massera for the murder of a mistress's husband, the businessman Fernando Branca, who was invited for a sail on the yacht Massera used as chief of the navy and never appeared.
In September, the military junta passes an autoamnesty for all members of the military charged with human rights violations. In October the leader of the Radical Civic Union, Raul Aifonsin, wins the presidency with 52 percent of the vote; it is the first time the Peronist movement has been defeated in clean elections. He is sworn into office on December 10. The new Congress nullifies the autoamnesty. Alfonsin creates a presidential commission of leading members of the society to investigate human rights violations and asks the courts to press charges against Videla, Massera, and other leaders of the dirty war.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior