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Judi Lynn

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Tue Oct 28, 2014, 07:30 PM Oct 2014

Operation Condor: Developed in the North to silence the South

Operation Condor: Developed in the North to silence the South
By Staff Writers, Telesur
Friday, Oct 24, 2014

Operation Condor, also known as Plan Condor — developed by Henry Kissinger and George Bush Sr., who was head of the CIA at the time — was a secret, transnational, state-sponsored terrorist coalition amongst the genocidal civic military dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia.

Argentine Secretary on Human Rights, Martín Fresneda, who gave a public address on the matter this week said “It hasn’t been very hard to understand what occurred in as much as the political, economic and social plan they had for Latin America and the south of our continent. What has been very hard to understand is how far they actually went. How they exterminated our people, in the worst way possible.”

Not only did the dictatorships trade information with each other to kidnap, disappear and kill, they would also cooperate in identifying and killing exiles who had taken refuge abroad.

Sergio Díaz escaped the claws of Chilean genocidal dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1974 when he crossed the Andes Mountains to neighboring Argentina. The coup d'etat of Argentina in March 1976 meant that Sergio — as many other Chileans that sought exile in Argentina — had to not only endure two ruthless dictatorships, but the persecution of Plan Condor as well. “The U.S. used the armed forces to be able to do everything they did and we know that all of the Latin American case at the time was part of a civic, military and judicial coup,” he explained.

Estimates indicate that as many as 60,000 deaths are connected to Operation Condor.
Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it will declassify more than 5,000 secret documents related to Plan Condor in forthcoming days. It is expected that these documents will reveal new information on this brutal campaign of extermination.

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Operation Condor: Developed in the North to silence the South (Original Post) Judi Lynn Oct 2014 OP
If we formed a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in this country truebluegreen Oct 2014 #1
 

truebluegreen

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1. If we formed a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in this country
Tue Oct 28, 2014, 09:38 PM
Oct 2014

it would take an exceptionally long time to finish its work. But it should be done, regardless.

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