Claudio Villamide, July 9 -- BUENOS AIRES - Victoria Morales did not wait inside the courthouse. She stood outside the federal building in Santa Cruz province on Thursday as the judge concluded nine years of proceedings with a verdict that put one name on a three-year sentence, suspended, and sent three other naval officers home without charge. Her son, Esteban Garcia, was among the 44 Argentines who died when the submarine ARA San Juan imploded more than three thousand feet below the South Atlantic on November 15, 2017. "Those responsible are left unpunished," she said.

"These were 44 preventable deaths."

The ARA San Juan departed on a routine patrol on November 13, 2017, carrying 43 men and one woman, Eliana Krawczyk - the first femal...