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From 1975 to the early 1980s, different military dictatorships were established in Latin America, specifically in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Chile. The military and police commanders of these six countries put into operation a repressive and bloody system against political and social movements that opposed the model. fascist. This system had a secret name, Plan or Operation Condor.

The military dictatorships in Latin America and the Plan Cóndor were episodes framed in the context of the cold war

After World War II, a new stage known as the cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union maintained a permanent military tension and, at the same time, a struggle to impose a political and social model on the planet as a whole.

In Latin America there was some support for the Revolution Cuban and left-wing collectives from different nations organized to combat the imperialism of the United States. Before this threat military dictatorships activated the Condor Plan to systematically eliminate any movement opponent of ideology leftist.

Following a declassification of documents promoted by the government of the United States in 2016, it has been known that the CIA played a fundamental role in the creation of the Condor Plan. This documentation and the Archives of Terror have revealed that the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was the main promoter of the Condor Plan.

With the unforeseen appearance of the Archives of Terror, it has been possible to know the atrocities committed by the military dictatorships involved in the Plan

In 1992, thousands of documents related to the Condor Plan were found in Paraguay. The collection of all the information is known as the term Archives of Terror. Its content provides specific data related to the strategy of repression.

In the files found you can find valuable documentation on different matters: telephone control and home surveillance of the opponents, the torture systems used, the names of those directly responsible for Plan Cóndor and, in a very special way, the crimes committed. All this information was decisive for a court of justice in Rome in 2013 to initiate a process to hold the leaders of the Plan accountable.

In 2017, the Rome court sentenced several soldiers and civilians from Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Uruguay to life imprisonment. A year earlier, the Argentine justice sentenced 15 defendants with prison terms for crimes of It hurts humanity.

The sentences related to the Plan Cóndor are considered as a historic trial of the military dictatorships of the Southern Cone that took place between the 1970s and 1980s.

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