MPs have rejected Uruguayan Friday morning, just one vote, a draft cancellation of a controversial law has long allowed a de facto amnesty for violations of human rights committed during the dictatorship (1973-1985). The vote seemed a formality after a first reading approval to the lower house in October followed a similar vote in the Senate in April, but a member of the left coalition in power has changed his mind and decided not to take part in voting , leaving supporters and detractors of the text to equality.
The law of "obsolescence", adopted in 1986, forcing judges to seek permission from the government of this country of 3.4 million people to be able to prosecute members of security forces suspected of abuses of human man during the dictatorship. It prevented any trial until the arrival of the Left to power in 2005.
Since then the government has authorized several investigations and major leaders of the dictatorship were sentenced, as the dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry (1973-1976). The opposition and some members of the majority criticized the project because the law of obsolescence has been ratified twice by referendum in 1989 and 2009.
Many cases remain to be tried, according to defenders of human rights in a country where dictatorship is about 200 missing. 
The law of "obsolescence", adopted in 1986, forcing judges to seek permission from the government of this country of 3.4 million people to be able to prosecute members of security forces suspected of abuses of human man during the dictatorship. It prevented any trial until the arrival of the Left to power in 2005.
Since then the government has authorized several investigations and major leaders of the dictatorship were sentenced, as the dictator Juan Maria Bordaberry (1973-1976). The opposition and some members of the majority criticized the project because the law of obsolescence has been ratified twice by referendum in 1989 and 2009.
Many cases remain to be tried, according to defenders of human rights in a country where dictatorship is about 200 missing.
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