Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)

Ministry of Justice
Ministerio de Justicia

Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice
Ministry overview
Formed1949; 75 years ago (1949)
JurisdictionGovernment of Argentina
HeadquartersSarmiento 329, Buenos Aires
Annual budget$ 32,087,882,671 (2021)[1]
Minister responsible
Websiteargentina.gob.ar/justicia

The Ministry of Justice[2] (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia; MJ) of Argentina is a ministry of the national executive power tasked with enforcing of the law and administration of justice.

The ministry was created in 1949, during the first presidency of Juan Domingo Perón, and has been consistently present in every presidential cabinet since then. The incumbent minister is Mariano Cúneo Libarona, who has served since 10 December 2023 in the cabinet of Javier Milei.

  1. ^ "Presupuesto 2021". Ministerio de Economía (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 20 November 2020.
  2. ^ Before 10 December 2023, the official name was "Ministry of Justice and Human Rights".