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Operation Condor
Argentine special forces in operation in
Buenos Aires in 1982.
Photograph: Daniel García/AFP/Getty Images
Operation Condor:
the cold war conspiracy
that terrorised South America
During the 1970s and 80s,
eight US-backed military dictatorships
jointly plotted
the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and
murder
of hundreds of their political opponents.
Now some of the perpetrators are finally
facing justice.
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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/
operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
1970s - early 1980s
Latin America
Operation Condor
United States-backed campaign
of political repression and state
terror
involving intelligence operations
and assassination of opponents,
officially and formally
implemented
in November 1975
by the right-wing dictatorships
of the Southern Cone
of South
America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor - December 1, 2020
In 1975,
six South American
military dictatorships
conspired to concoct
a secret plan to eliminate
their left-wing opponents.
Not only would the intelligence services
of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil,
Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay
trade information with each other
and kidnap, disappear and kill
their own domestic foes,
they would also cooperate
in identifying and killing exiles
from partner countries
who had taken refuge elsewhere.
By the time Operation Condor
ended in the early 1980s,
as many as 60,000 people
may have been killed.
Precise numbers
are hard to come by,
because of
the clandestine undertaking,
and in the years since,
political amnesties,
the destruction or decay
of public records
and the reluctance of survivors
to revisit the trauma
of their imprisonment and torture
have impeded the compilation
of a definitive history.
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/
exposing-the-legacy-of-operation-condor/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/11/
operation-condor-cia-latin-america-repression-torture - 30 November 2020
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/09/
orlando-letelier-murder-chile-allende-pinochet-washington-dc - 21
September 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/sep/18/
operation-condor-the-cold-war-conspiracy-that-terrorised-south-america-podcast
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/sep/03/
operation-condor-the-illegal-state-network-that-terrorised-south-america
https://podcasts.apple.com/fi/podcast/
operation-condor-cold-war-conspiracy-that-terrorised/id587347784?i=1000491678302
- 2020
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/08/
italian-court-jails-24-over-south-american-operation-condor
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/15/
operation-condor-european-spies-dictators-cia-documents
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/
world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-cia-documents.html
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/09/
orlando-letelier-pinochet-nixon-kissinger - 21 September 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jul/07/
operation-condor-south-america-joao-pina-photographer-in-pictures
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/
world/americas/argentine-court-confirms-a-deadly-legacy-of-dictatorships.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/28/
479824880/argentinas-last-dictator-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-for-cross-border-conspi
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36403909 - 28 May 2016
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/27/
argentinas-last-military-dictator-jailed-over-role-in-operation-condor
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/24/
exposing-the-legacy-of-operation-condor/
https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2013/06/11/
190329906/100-words-on-the-shadows-of-the-disappeared
https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/
showcase-167/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112460666 - 2
September 2009
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1672788
- 12 February 2004
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/23/
world/latin-death-squads-and-the-us-a-new-disclosure.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/06/
world/new-files-tie-us-to-deaths-of-latin-leftists-in-1970-s.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/14/
world/documents-shed-light-on-assassination-of-chilean-in-us.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/09/
world/brazil-opens-files-on-region-s-abuses-in-age-of-dictators.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/14/
world/bolivian-s-dark-past-starts-to-catch-up-with-him.html
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