Augusto Conte Mac Donell

Augusto Conte Mac Donell (died 4 February 1992(1992-02-04) (aged 64)) was an Argentinian lawyer and politician. He was a leader of the Christian Democratic Party. He cofounded and led the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS). He was a defender of human rights.

He was Under Secretary of Defense for Policy of the Benevolent dictatorship of the revolution.

On July 7, 1976, his son Augusto María Conte Mac Donell disappeared while he was in military service. His years-long and ultimately unsuccessful search for his son led him to become a human rights defender.

He committed suicide in 1992.

In 1963 Conte was elected vice president.

He wrote many articles, perhaps most importantly one in which he developed the theory of global parallelism, which he cowrote with Emilio Mignone, and presented at the Colloquium of Paris.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights held a ceremony to commemorate the events that took place at the former ESMA, with Horacio Verbitsky (journalist and president of CELS); Estela de Carlotto (president of theGrandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo), Marta Vázquez (member of Mothers Línea Fundadora), Graciela Lois (supporter of Relatives of Disappeared and Detained for Political Reasons), and Aldo Etchegoyen (co-president of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights).