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Dates: Ones that seemed important
● 1975-1977: From 1975 to 1977 military regimes in Brazil,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina rounded up
thousands of people who were suspected of having
affiliations with radical leftist movements and put them into
concentration camps and secret detention centers.
- To add on, the countries in what is known as the Southern Cone
of South America underwent a human-rights crime wave of a
magnitude not seen before or since in the region
● 1970s: Military regimes in place for more than a decade in
Brazil and Paraguay were joined by like-minded military
rulers who overthrew civilian regimes in Uruguay, Chile,
Argentina and Bolivia in the 1970s.
● 1993: No one has made an exact count of the vast archive,
which was discovered and confiscated in 1993 by a judge
investigating a human-rights case. According to the best
estimates, there are between 500,000 and 700,000
individual pages of documents and photos--all raw files of
Paraguay's political police and its military intelligence allies
in other countries.
● 2000: The US Justice Department sent a team of two
assistant US attorneys and three FBI agents to Chile in
March 2000 to conduct interviews with 42 people, many of
whom were former military officers, who were thought to
have information about or to have participated in the 1976
assassination in Washington, D.C., of Chile's former foreign
minister Orlando Letelier.
Cause:
In May 1975, Paraguayan police arrested two men
representing what they considered a major new guerrilla threat, a
united underground organization of armed groups from several
countries, called the Revolutionary Coordinating Body (JCR, or
Junta Coordinadora Revolucionaria). The men were Jorge
Fuentes Alarcon, a top-echelon officer in the armed Chilean group
MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left), and Amilcar Santucho,
of Argentina's ERP (People's Revolutionary Army). Santucho's
brother, Roberto, was the head of ERP, considered the most
violent guerrilla group in Argentina. The Chilean and Argentine
movements had joined with underground groups from Uruguay
and Bolivia to create the JCR to fight the Southern Cone's military
regimes. Fuentes and Santucho were on their way to Paris for a
meeting of the JCR when they were arrested at the Paraguayan
border.
The arrests were seen as an intelligence bonanza, according to
Paraguayan and US documents. The military operation growing
out of the arrests involved the intelligence agencies of at least
four countries, including the US FBI, and the document trail
indicates the combined intelligence efforts may have led directly
to the formal launch of Operation Condor a few months later.
http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chile/operation-condor.htm
The website I used for the information, put it in one of the slides I
have.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Condor
That is for extra info if you wanna use it, has a couple if not all
that was listed under operation condor…