Overview
- Ministry sources confirmed on December 4 that Alberto Baños submitted his irrevocable resignation from the Human Rights post he had held since July 2024.
- Officials and media reports attributed the move to tensions with Mariano Cúneo Libarona regarding adherence to cost-cutting and restructuring priorities.
- Baños drew national and international repudiation after reframing dictatorship-era crimes before UN bodies as isolated excesses rather than systematic crimes against humanity.
- The area was sharply downsized under the current government, including a downgrade from secretariat to subsecretariat with a projected saving of 9,000 million pesos and hundreds of dismissals, with 405 confirmed by March and human-rights sectors claiming more than 800 this year.
- Human-rights organizations did not lament his departure, and the ministry registers another senior-level exit within the past year.