Generals, Admirals, Colonels, and Captains

Alfonsin resigns from the presidency and Menem assumes it five months before his term officially begins. In October, he signs a pardon for four hundred officers and noncommissioned officers charged in the carapintada rebellions (among them Rico and Seineldin) and for the three former commanders in chief sentenced by the military Courts for their role in the Malvinas war, as well as four dozen generals, admirals, colonels, and captains who remained in prison for human rights violations.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior