Operation Condor: Terror in South America

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To this day, the legacy of Operation Condor haunts South America. The programme of imprisonment, murder, and terror that several dictatorial regimes collaborated on in the 1970s and 80s.

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References:

Cecilia Menjívar and Néstor Rodríguez (eds). When States Kill: Latin America, the U.S., and Technologies of Terror

J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America