Trajectory, capital and ideology. Perpetrators' statements on trials for crimes against humanity in Argentina Trayectoria, capital e ideología. Las declaraciones de los perpetradores en los juicios por crímenes de lesa humanidad en la Argentina

SALVI, VALENTINA

Kamchatka

Universitat de Valencia, Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication

Lugar: Valentina; Año: 2020 p. 193 - 215

During the oral debate of trial against humanity known as Guerrieri I that took place in the city of Rosario 2009 and 2010, four accused perpetrators testified. They were the retired military officers General Pascual Guerrieri, former deputy chief of Destacamento de Inteligencia Militar 121 in Rosario and commander of the "task group", Lieutenant Colonel Jorge Fariña, intelligence chief of the "task group"; Captain Juan Daniel Amelong, deputy chief of the "task force"; and the civil intelligence agent Eduardo "Tucu" Costanzo. The proposal of this article is to analyse these accused officers´ statements in relation with their enunciative positions on trial where the co-presence between victims and perpetrators is again possible. The main interest is to attend to accused officers´ versions and narratives about the past and their performances as agents with capital, resources and specific trajectories. The objective is to focus on their different military degrees, academic training, repressive apparatus´s position, prestige and internal recognition and personal commitment to the so-called "anti-subversive war", as well as their political and ideological strategies in order to maintain an authority´s position on trial.