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claimed to be apolitical; or the circumstances that the military made different judicial decisions throughout their years in power. Those facts are compatible with both cooperation and lack of cooperation between these complex and sometimes internally fragmented judicial and military elites. Similarly, it is difficult to maintain that the dissolution of the National Penal Court in Argentina, and even the amnesty to political prisoners given in the 1970s, negatively affected the relationship between the judiciary and the military. Maybe the case is just the opposite, namely that as a consequence of those political decisions over legal issues, these elites came closer to each other and reinforced their mutual distrust towards politicians.