Origin and Current Status of Operation Condor

Fabián Escalante Font The National Security Doctrine of the United States, sustained and fed by the Monroe doctrine and other fascist concepts (Kissinger) were the fathers of Operation Condor, whose name, according to the Cuban-born terrorist Antonio Veciana, comes from the plot -so called by the CIA- to assassinate Fidel Castro on the occasion of…

Operation Condor: The CIA is Not Innocent

Raúl Antonio Capote Over the years, the CIA has spied on the diplomatic and military communications of hundreds of nations by using encryption machines from a Swiss company owned by the CIA and Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service (BND), as revealed by the National Security Archive, an independent research center. Both the Washington Post and the…

Switzerland at the Heart of a Far-Reaching Surveillance Network Facilitating the U.S.-Backed Operation Condor

Ramona Wadi The atrocities of Operation Condor – the U.S.-backed covert plan by Argentina, Chile, Brazil Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia to eliminate left-wing influence in Latin America – have been gradually revealed through declassified documents that detail the diplomatic manoeuvring and state terror that left tens of thousands of people killed, tortured and disappeared. Argentina…

The New Operation Condor is Underway in Latin America

Carmen Esquivel Translation by Internationalist 360° Havana (PL) False accusations and media campaigns are used against Latin American governments and leaders to get them out of political life in what many consider to be the re-edition of the Condor Plan, because their goals are the same, but with different methods. The so-called Operation Condor, a…

The Judicial Operation Condor

E. Raúl Zaffaroni APPROXIMATE ENGLISH TRANSLATION VIA GOOGLE Without “Falcon” or sirens, with no “liberated” zones and no kidnappings, a “judicial Operation Condor” extends through the Southern Cone. A political prison like that of Milagro Sala and her companions, rather seems anachronistic, out of season and, precisely for that reason, is a scandal and an…

Thousands of Argentines Protest Operation Condor-era Impunity

TeleSUR English | informacion@granma.cu May 11, 2017 Thousands of people filled Argentina’s historical Plaza de Mayo on May 10 to reject the Supreme Court’s recent controversial ruling against human rights. The law, known as the “two for one,” reduces the sentence of prisoners convicted for dictatorship-era crimes against humanity. Dozens of social organizations called for…

Operation Condor-Era Argentine Dictator Gets Life Imprisonment

Former military dictator Reynaldo Bignone was convicted for “crimes against humanity” against leftist activists. An Argentine federal court on Wednesday sentenced former military dictator Reynaldo Bignone to life imprisonment for his role in kidnapping, torturing and murdering anti-government protesters during the 1970s and 80s. Bignone, along with six other former military leaders, were convicted for…

Bolivia to Declassify Operation Condor and Che Murder Files

The day after his execution on Oct. 10, 1967, Guevara’s corpse was displayed to the world press in Vallegrande hospital/Photo: Wikimedia Commons The declassified documents will include files on the diplomatic acts by Bolivian dictatorships against leftist opponents as part of Operation Condor. The Bolivian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it will declassify diplomatic documents from…