is fact. Instead, his ideology and his religious beliefs were put on trial, and found guilty by the Tribunal that tried him. He is currently under house arrest after serving more than nine years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He suffers from arthritis and is frequently in great pain. 5The struggle for human rights has found a strong ally in the person of Judge Baltazar Garzon, who is investigating the self-genocide committed in Argentina against people whose ideologies differed from the military's. Spain's General prosecutor, - a man of known right-wing biases - argues that Spain has no jurisdiction on this matter, and has appealed to the National Audience. The National Audience should decide soon if indeed Garzon has jurisdiction to investigate the disappearances. Meanwhile, former-disappeared and the families of the disappeared continue offering their testimony. The Argentinean Supreme Court - most of whose members are closely associated to President Menem - has ruled that the amnesty laws preclude judicial investigations as to the fate of a disappeared woman. The ruling was highly criticized both by human rights organizations as well as by jurists and judges. A number of Argentinean courts are investigating the fate of disappeared children. Among them, the son of Sara Mendez, a Uruguayan woman who disappeared with her 21 year old son. She was later liberated, without her child who remains missing. The future is clouded for Argentina. The world is being swept up in an open economy. If Argentina does not change and provide basic human rights, they will be left out of the forward progress that the rest of the world is making in moving to a global economy. The "global economy" is more and more being based on open markets. Open markets only succeed when they are free make changes quickly to markets. Governments and societies that do not support basic human rights will not do will in the global economy.Chapter 3 - Governmen...
