Chapter
1 Why Was the Economic Dimension Missing for So Long in Transitional Justice? An Exploratory Essay
Early TJ Efforts and the Focus on Basic Integrity Rights
Is the Panorama Changing, and If so, Why?
2 Accountability for Corporate Complicity in Human Rights Violations: Argentina’s Transitional Justice Innovation?
Transitional Justice and Corporate Complicity: Why and When
Transitional Justice and Corporate Complicity: Where and How
Explaining Transitional Justice and Corporate Complicity
Direct Complicity in Criminal Violence
Conclusion: Argentina as TJ and Corporate Complicity Innovator or Loner
Part II Theoretical Framework and International Dimension
3 Economic Ideas and Power during the Dictatorship
Prehistory of Argentine Liberalism
Liberalism against Power: The Role of Intellectual Weapons in Instigating the Coup
Liberalism in Power: Projects in Tension in the Labyrinths of the Process
The Neoliberal Experiment of December 1978: New Conventions for the Great Transformation
Conclusion: Ideas and the Paradoxes of Victory
4 Foreign Powers, Economic Support, and Geopolitics
Latin America and the United States
The National Security Doctrine
Part III The Macroeconomics of the Dictatorship
5 The Legacy of the Dictatorship: The New Pattern of Capital Accumulation...
Background: The Second Stage of Import Substitution
The Income Redistribution and Economic Policies of the Military Dictatorship
Financial Valorization: The New Capital Accumulation Pattern Imposed by the Military Dictatorship
Public Finances in the Orthodox Adjustment Stage
The “Exchange Anchor” Stage
Managing the Crisis and Public Finances
The Legacy of the Dictatorship
7 Complicity of the Lenders
Financial Complicity: A Rational and Holistic Analysis
The Argentine Case: External Financial Aid
More Resources for Repression
The Actions of the United States Government and (the Withholding of) Financial Aid
Conclusions and Prospects of Accountability for Financial Complicity
Part IV Complicity and the Law
8 Corporate Complicity and Legal Accountability: Report of the International Commission of Jurists
9 Corporate Responsibility for Complicity: International and Local Perspectives
Is It Unlawful to Contribute Economically to a Criminal Regime?
Civil Responsibility Requirements
Corporate Contribution and the Causal Link
10 Statute of Limitations in Actions for Complicity
Spheres of Responsibility and the Challenge of the Passage of Time
Statutory Limitations Today
The Discussions in Argentine Jurisprudence
The Debate in Comparative Jurisprudence
Some Problems of Argentine Jurisprudence in Light of International Standards
Part V Company-Ordered Disappearances
11 The Cases of Ford and Mercedes Benz
The Case of Ford Motor Argentina
The Case of Mercedes Benz
Latest Judicial Developments
12 Acindar and Techint: Extreme Militarization of Labor Relations
The Companies and their Players in Historical Perspective
Repression of Workers in and for the Benefit of Companies
13 Between Historical Analysis and Legal Responsibility: The Ledesma Case
The Long Process of Judicial Proceedings
Considering Corporate Responsibility from the Perspective of the Ledesma Case
Labor Movement, Repression, and Economic Project of the Last Dictatorship
The Meaning of Justice in the Economic Responsibility Trials
14 Contributions to the Analysis of the Role of Labor Leadership in Worker Repression in the 1970s
The SMATA Córdoba Division
The Cases of Ford and Mercedes Benz
Top Union Leadership and Dictatorship: Elements for a Discussion of the “Social Consensus” View
15 Suppression of Workers Rights
Amendments to the Employment Contract Act
Part VI Industrial and Agricultural Business Associations
16 Industrial Economic Power as Promoter and Beneficiary of Argentina’s Refounding Project (1976–1983)
The Refoundational Nature of the Military Dictatorship and the Support of Economic Power
The Growing Concentration and Centralization of Capital and the Redefinition of Economic Power in Industry
17 The Complicity of Agricultural Business Chambers
Part VII Illegal Appropriation of Companies
19 The National Securities Commission and the Assault on “Economic Subversion”
20 The Papel Prensa Case: Notes for a Study
Toward a Conclusive Investigation into the Facts
Part VIII A Range of Generous and Interested Supports
21 The Media: Unified Discourse and Business Deals under Cover of State Terrorism
A New Legal and Political Order
Statements, Editorials, and Other Paradigmatic Expressions
22 The Price of the Church’s Blessing
The Doctrine of Extermination
From Concealment to Involvement
Education and Social Control
Contributions with an Agenda
A Matter of Responsibility
23 The Hidden Italy Connection
Contracts and Human Rights
24 The Lawyers: From Repression to Neoliberalism
The Buenos Aires City Bar
The Partners of Foreign Capital
Institutional Reforms for Non-Repetition
Realpolitik: Responsibility for Complicity and Economic Policy