Move over machismo, women defense ministers new trend in South America

[struggle4progress]

Published: January 27, 2007

... Take Argentina, for example. Thirty years after coup-plotting generals helped install a dictatorship, leftist Nilda Garre was seated as the country's first female minister of defense.

On Friday, she announced that former military officers could no longer use the cloak of state secrecy laws as an excuse not to testify about illegal abductions, torture and disappearances under junta rule.

"The rules of secrecy cannot be transformed in to an obstacle to truth and justice," she declared in announcing a presidential decree that will compel more officers to testify.

Hundreds of cases of rights violations from Argentina's "Dirty War" are now being investigated since the country's amnesty laws were struck down in 2005 ...

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/28/america/LA-GEN-Latin-America-Women-in-Defense.php

[Triana]

1. This is SO awesome!

thanks S4P!

Look forward to seein ya again soon!