Analysis Of The Dirty War By David Sheinin

Even though guerillas were losing more and more people to the Dirty War, this did not stop the military from continuing their pursuit of every potential subversive. As time went on, accusations of human rights violations began to pile up and the government quickly began to act as if they were in favor of human rights regulations. They tried to promote the welfare of the indigenous people of Argentina to fool the United Nations. At this point in the war, the military was battling a fake enemy, one created by them to deceive the rest of the world. After years of strife and unrest, the economy was again in terrible shape by the 80s. To bring the people’s favor back, the military decided to invade and attempt to retake the Falklands. After an awful …show more content…
This led to their fall out of power and subsequent trial of the Junta leaders. Most of the main leaders were stripped of their military ranks, citizenship and some were sentenced to time in prison. Overall, this trial did not solve the unrest between those for the war and those who were affected by it. It only led to a deeper divide in the country as it is still in debt with no clear solution ready. Consent Of The Damned by David M. K. Sheinin is a much-needed entry into the large body of works about the Dirty War. While he discusses the atrocities that were committed by the argentine military government, he focuses on how these actions were portrayed by the media and how the citizens of Argentina were affected by them. The book starts with Sheinin discussing how the Junta used the media and some of the country’s most beloved stars to portray a sense of structure. The new regime’s goal was to increase …show more content…
Sheinin tells the scathing tale of the Junta’s disappearing while promoting a new Argentina. Their incredibly complex hypocrisy is Sheinin’s main point. The book starts mid-Dirty War as he begins to describe the state of the media. The military government used this outlet to parade a sense of triumph and success in the new regime using popular personalities. But this was not the only time that the regime used others as tokens to benefit their image. Sheinin divulges into the Junta attempts to perform damage control because of the human rights violations being tossed through the United Nations. To show the world that they were supporters of human rights, the government began to create a campaign to bring the indigenous people of the country into normal citizen life. One of the main points of this plan was to begin the marketing and selling of indigenous goods and crafts. This was met with major backlash from the indigenous people. Even though there were these complaints, that didn’t stop the Junta from promoting this to the UN as a victory for human rights. What was most lacking in the other books was content after 1983 and the fall of the Junta. Consent of the Damned does a fantastic job reprimanding the Alfonsín leadership in the new democratic government. In the years from 1983 to 1989, the Argentine government did a great deal to fix what the previous regime had broken in regards to human rights