Argentine Justice Minister holds secret meeting with leading Dirty War apologist.

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Argentine Justice Minister Germán Garavano held a meeting with the country's most prominent Dirty War apologist and proponent of amnesty for the over 500 convicted human rights abusers, Cecilia Pando. The meeting, which was held on April 25, was meant to remain secret; it was, however, confirmed by the country's leading progressive news daily, Página/12.

"It was going to stay secret!" exclaimed Pando. "Our intention was not to comment, nor to let news of this get out. I don't know how they got the information, really!"

Pando then referred to the discussion as "humanitarian" in nature, explaining that "our concern is over irregularities regarding the trials of military officers."

Sources familiar with the talk confirmed, however, that Pando is looking forward to working with the Macri administration on the possibility of achieving freedom for those recently convicted of crimes against humanity during the last military dictatorship, and, as a first step, obtaining house arrest for some repressers.

Pando, 48, is the head of Memoria Completa, a group which advocates for the acquittal of the over 1,600 defendants charged with Dirty War-era crimes against humanity since their immunity was revoked by President Néstor Kirchner in 2003; the group's motto is "fascism is liberty." Known for her bombastic rhetoric and her death threats against Kirchner-era government officials, Pando became a vocal supporter of Macri's 2015 campaign after he referred to human rights as "a scam."

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[Judi Lynn]

1. This is a new name to some of us. There's one ugly person looking out through her eyes.

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I gather this one is from a prominent fascist family, too, is that right? She seems like a wildly spoiled creepy nasty brat who has been wildly over-indulged. She somehow reminds me of a brunette Latin American Ann Coulter. She'd do anything to get in front of a camera, right?

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2. The 'Argentine Ann Coulter' sounds about right.

Just another borderline psychopath without much going for her other than being a shameless opportunist.

Very perceptive as always, Judi.

Pando's family, like Ann Coulter's, as far as I know are everyday people of no particular note. But like her fellow hyena Coulter, she discovered (or was persuaded) that she had a talent for firebreathing.

Her name first showed up in Argentine news in 2006, when she made it a point to stalk President Néstor Kirchner wherever he had a speaking engagement.

She also became a fixture outside many of the Dirty War trials, of course. The first two photos above, in fact, were taken during a particularly scandalous incident in 2006 in which she yelled profanities at the Human Rights Secretary at the time, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, as he emerged from a courthouse and made that throat-slitting gesture at him.

The lowly Ms. Pando does have one interesting connection: retired Lt. Col. Héctor Schwab, a friend of her husband's (an Army Major who was dismissed for sedition during the Kirchner era). Schwab was one of Gen. Antonio Bussi's right-hand men during the murderous Operation Independence in Tucumán in 1975-76, and later co-founded a security agency that received millions in contracts under Mayor Macri.

Schwab was charged by Judge Baltazar Garzón of Spain in 2003, and by Argentine courts in 2008; but after allegedly making a few threats, the witnesses backed out and the case remains in limbo.

Macri's kind of guy, you could say. Great photos, Judi! Thanks as always.