. . "Lieutenant General Mart\u00EDn Antonio Balza (13 June 1934 Salto, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine military former Chief of Staff of the Argentine Army. He is currently Argentine ambassador to the Republic of Colombia. A man of strong democratic convictions, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d'\u00E9tat throughout his senior career. He also gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror."@en . "Argentina by Human Rights Watch"@en . . . . . "center"@en . . "Mart\u00EDn Balza"@en . . "The military coup of 1976, he said, was a tragic miscalculation: \"the armed forces, and among them the army, for which I have the responsibility of speaking, thought erroneously that society did not possess the necessary antibodies to confront the scourge [of violent left-wing subversion] and with the backing of many, took power.\" The armed forces, he said, were ill-prepared to combat urban terrorism and resorted to methods, such as torture and extrajudicial execution that can never be justifiable. It was a crime, Balza said, to give immoral orders: \"no one is obliged to follow such orders, and the person who does incurs the moral and legal consequences of their actions.\""@en . . . "Lieutenant General Mart\u00EDn Antonio Balza (13 June 1934 Salto, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine military former Chief of Staff of the Argentine Army. He is currently Argentine ambassador to the Republic of Colombia. A man of strong democratic convictions, had stood up for the legitimate government in every attempted coup d'\u00E9tat throughout his senior career. He also gave the first institutional self-criticism about the Armed Forces' involvement in the 1976 coup and the ensuing reign of terror."@en . "50.0"^^ . . .