Latinnews Daily - 12 December 2003

Argentina's supreme court offered a major hint yesterday (11 December) that it is ready to annul legislation granting amnesty to members of the 1976-1983 military government. Three supreme court justices of the nine-member court, Enrique Petracchi, Eugenio Zaffaroni, and Juan Carlos Maqueda, said yesterday that the amnesty laws violated the American convention on human rights, or the so-called Pacto de San José de Costa Rica signed in 1969. They were at the time discussing the case of former naval captain, Alfredo Astiz, who is wanted for extradition by France.