Four Hundred

In February, when the sixty-day statute of limitations ends, Federal Chambers throughout the country have not brought charges against thirty or forty members of the military, as the government had hoped, but against almost four hundred. In the ESMA proceedings, the Federal Chamber of the Capital orders the arrest of nineteen men, among them admirals, officers, and noncommissioned officers. As the summonses continue to reach officers facing charges in other parts of the country, the military tension grows.

Horacio Verbitsky's Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior