Criminal investigations and prosecutions of human rights cases are subject to long delays that hinder accountability. The fate of scores who “disappeared” before democracy was reestablished in 1982 has still not been clarified, and most perpetrators of disappearances and extrajudicial executions have escaped justice. Military courts obstructed justice by exercising jurisdiction in the case of an army recruit killed in suspicious circumstances during a training exercise, despite court rulings that it should be handled by civilian courts. Government officials used legislation prohibiting the expression of racist ideas in the media to seek criminal charges against private media and journalists because of reporting to which the officials objected.