cafiero was formally accused in 2006, along with isabel perón and several of her former ministers, of involvement in the forced disappearance of a minor in 1976. president isabel perón and her cabinet had signed decrees on october 6, 1975, ordering "military and security operations that may be needed to annihilate subversive elements throughout the territory of the country" "(see dirty war for historical context)". cafiero, during the trial of the juntas in 1985, had stated that the isabel perón government (which presided over the early phase of the dirty war) believed that common police tactics were not enough to combat the guerrilla threat, and that he learned of human rights violations committed at the time only after perón's overthrow in the march 1976 coup d'état.