Between urgency and reconciliation: the great Argentina press and the enactment of the Law of “Punto Final” in 1986

• Autores: Borrelli, Marcelo, Ochoa, María Fernanda
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2019
• Institución: Universidad de Piura
• Repositorio: Revista de Comunicación
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.udep.edu.pe:article/1236
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistadecomunicacion.com/article/view/1236
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: prensa argentina; Punto Final; Raúl Alfonsín; derechos humanos; terrorismo de Estado; Argentina press; Raúl Alfonsin; human rights; state terrorism

This article discusses how Argentine newspapers Clarín, La Nación and La Prensa informatively built the enactment of the Act called "Punto final" in December 1986 -during the government of Raul Alfonsín (1983-1989)-, which stipulated a deadline for filing legal complaints against members of the Argentine armed forces who had committed crimes during the clandestine repression ordered by the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. In a context where the military pressured the government not to be judged, the publications studied construct a scenario of urgency and need for reconciliation to resolve the conflict.