CONCURRING OPINION JUDGE L. PATRICIO PAZMIÑO FREIRE INTER-AMERICAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF THE JULIEN GRISONAS FAMILY V. ARGENTINA JUDGMENT OF SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 (Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs) Within the framework of the debate over the case of the Julien Grisonas Family v. Argentina, I take this opportunity and use this platform to contribute to the discussion on the following aspects: First, the right to the truth, its autonomous content in relation to the right to information, and its relevance in the post-truth era; and, secondly, I review the importance of the collective guarantee and the possibility of using existing procedural tools to exercise the inter-state right to information. Both issues, which fall within the dogmatics of international human rights law, are especially relevant if we recognize and agree regarding the currently convulsive, enigmatic, and confusing context in which our daily lives unfold in the Americas and the world in general. We live overwhelmed by multiple and conglomerate systemic crises, and although they pre-date the coronavirus pandemic, today sees them emerging and exposed crudely and violently, in ways that are impossible to rationalize using formal or complex logic, or what is worse still, from the old and almost always forgotten tools provided by simple and plain common sense. We live in the era of post-truth (sic), systematic deception, shamelessness, anti-politics, denial of the obvious, casual and systematic deception, repeated and amplified by social networks and hegemonic information and communication media that exhaustingly convince us of the transmutation of what is logical, true, and verifiable by the culture expressed in the famous tango Cambalache by Enrique Santos Discépolo.

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