| Sumario: | Given the rise of the “new rights” in Latin America and its impact over memory conflicts, this article seeks to explore the main dimensions, actors and meanings that influenced the production of the discourse of “human rights” and “memory” during the government of Mauricio Macri in Argentina (2015-2019). For that purpose, it unfolds a multiple perspective analysis anchored in a commemorative juncture given by the 40th anniversary of the visit that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights made to Argentina during the last military dictatorship. As Elizabeth Jelin has pointed out, commemorative junctures or "unhappy dates" constitute one of the privileged scenarios to identify conflicts over the meanings of the past on the national scene. Together with a systematic review of previous contributions, the analysis will allow us to identify a network of actors who disputed the local meanings attributed to human rights and the memory of State terrorism. We will show how elements associated with transnational human rights networks and the "politics of regret" were articulated together with local meanings attributed to pre-Kirchner humanitarian activism (2003-2015).
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