No closer to the truth despite the change of government — AMIA continues to be a byword for impunity. Tuesday, July 19, 2016 AMIA no closer to justiceThe 22nd anniversary of the AMIA Jewish community centre terrorist bomb massacre that killed 85 came and went yesterday without any basic change in the underlying sense of impunity. Macri’s government seems more politically interested in highlighting the undeniably deficient Kirchnerite handling of the AMIA case but the roots of the damage to the investigation came in the years immediately following the bombing — and the first five were under Menem. Not only does a fresh new presidency not beholden to Iran fail to offer any future breakthrough — it does not even show any signs of retreading old ground in order to place the AMIA probe back on track after all the previous detours. But that controversial agreement (which never really left the ground) has only clouded this issue for three of the past 22 years — otherwise the Macri administration is offering precious little to justify even the faintest optimism as to calls for justice ever being heeded.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald July 19, 2016 03:19 UTC