This includes defending denialist stances about state terror committed during the last military dictatorship in the country, as well as defunding human rights state organizations. The country has also noticeably changed its foreign policy in human rights, going as far as to break its tradition of neutrality in international armed conflicts. In 2025, Argentina has engaged in what the report describes as an “unrestricted alignment” with U.S. foreign policy, said the report issued by CELS, an organization founded in 1979 during the military dictatorship. Argentine representatives have also questioned the legitimacy of international human rights protection mechanisms during hearings before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the UN. He also accused human rights organizations of being “corrupt” and said the members of the committee had been “colonized” by those groups.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 31, 2025 15:16 UTC