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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, [10] 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...
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.
May 28, 2016 · Argentina's last dictator and 14 other former military officials were sentenced to prison for human rights crimes committed during a clandestine operation to hunt down dissidents called Operation Condor.
Aug 16, 2022 · Instigated by multiple governments in South America, Operation Condor resulted in hundreds, potentially thousands, of human rights violations and extrajudicial killings.
May 27, 2016 · The car-bomb murder of former Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his American colleague, Ronni Karpen Moffitt, in downtown Washington D.C. on September 21, 1976, became the most infamous of Condor assassination plots.
His administration actively participated in Operation Condor, a clandestine campaign coordinated by several South American rulers to eliminate their opponents. It was responsible for numerous extralegal arrests, extraditions, and other human rights abuses.