The President of the Supreme Court and the Council of the Magistratura, Horacio Rosatti, affirmed that the trial of the Military Juntas was an 'exemplary' case of transitional justice and highlighted the role of the judges who carried out the process. According to the Argentine News Agency, Rosatti recalled that, unlike other countries, Argentina respected in that criminal process the principles of legality, natural judge, equality before the law, and publicity of the trial, which allowed it to be neither a matter of impunity nor of revenge. 'The Argentine case is exemplary because the crimes were already foreseen in the Penal Code. There was no invention of ad hoc typification of illicit acts or special courts,' Rosatti emphasized. During his speech, Rosatti also defended the role of the Judicial Power in 'sustaining the republican institutions when they faltered.' He also announced that the chamber where the trial of the Juntas took place will be integrated into the future Supreme Court Museum, which will be inaugurated in the first half of 2026, so that new generations 'remember not only the process but also the environment in which it took place.' To close his message, Rosatti evoked a scene from the French Revolution, where the fate of the deposed King Louis XVI was being discussed, and contrasted the revenge of Robespierre with the choice of the Argentine judges to 'appeal to procedures because we have principles.' 'For having sustained the pillars of democracy and teaching us that independent judges can combat evil through civilized paths, we want to say to them: eternal thanks,' he concluded. He also noted that history changed in 1983, when for the first time a vicious circle of alternation between constitutional and de facto governments without accountability was broken.
