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Operation Condor (Portuguese: Operação Condor; Spanish: Operación Cóndor) was a campaign of political repression involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing sympathizers, liberals and democrats and their families in South America which formally existed from 1975 to 1983.
Jan 24, 2014 · Operation Condor, the secret plan carried out by several South American dictatorships to eliminate left-wing opponents, killed as many as 60,000 people. The photographer João Pina has spent a...
May 6, 2015 · Operation Condor was an infamous secret alliance between South American dictatorships in the mid and late 1970s - a Southern Cone rendition and repression program - formed to track down and eliminate enemies of their military regimes.
…leftists disappeared in 1975, and Operation Condor, in which several South American military governments coordinated their efforts to systematically eliminate opponents in the 1970s and ’80s. In January 2000 Pinochet was allowed to return home after a British court ruled that he was physically unfit to stand trial.
Operation Condor was a formal system to coordinate repression among the countries of the Southern Cone that operated from the mid-1970s until the early eighties. It aimed to persecute and eliminate political, social, trade-union and student activists from Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil.
Through Operation Condor, a wave of transnational state repression against political exiles extended throughout Latin America and beyond, to Europe and the United States, undermining traditional concepts of sovereignty and politi-cal asylum.
Aug 16, 2022 · Instigated by multiple governments in South America, Operation Condor resulted in hundreds, potentially thousands, of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings.
Towards the end of November 1975, representatives of the military regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay gathered in the Chilean capital of Santiago, where they established the so-called “Condor System” or Operation Condor.
May 27, 2016 · The final verdict is due in a landmark human rights trial in Argentina arising from Operation Condor, a campaign of state-sponsored terror by South American dictatorships in the 1970s.
Operation Condor facilitated the persecution of individuals across borders, by keeping track of their whereabouts and facilitating their subsequent kidnapping. The majority of the victims were murdered or forcibly disappeared, and only a few survived.
