Raúl Alfonsín

Argentina's first president after the 1976 to 1983 dictatorship set up the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, whose report Nunca Más documented nearly 9,000 disappearances, and put the junta leaders on trial in 1985, the first such trial of a military regime by a civilian court in Latin America. Under pressure from military uprisings he then passed the Full Stop and Due Obedience laws limiting further prosecutions. Those laws were annulled in 2003, and hundreds of officers have since been convicted.