The return to democratic elections and civilian rule brought accountability, justice, and retribution for victims of the “Dirty War.” Raul Alfonsin, publicly elected in 1983, began trying to prosecute high-level military officials and to implement democratic reforms. He drastically cut the military budget, but economic woes forced him to resign, ushering in Carlos Menem. Menem felt that the support of the military would benefit his party as well as the country, and he immediately began pardoning all members of the military junta either already convicted or still indicted. The Supreme Court has since revoked the pardons, paving the way for prosecutions to resume. Nestor Kirchner, elected in 2003, garnered local and international support by firing unpopular officials and revoking amnesty laws for the military. Still dealing with the legacy of the “Dirty War,” many Argentines are as concerned with contemporary crime and police brutality as they are with prosecuting human rights violators from the old regimes.