[ Originally published on November 25th, 2014 ]
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In
Operation
Condor,
an estimated 60,000+
people lost
their lives
in what became one of the deadliest
political repression and terror operations in history. Another
30,000+
people
“disappeared”
and over 400,000
more were arrested and imprisoned.
In
1975, the right-wing South American military [and para-military]
dictatorships of Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
and Uruguay joined forces and conspired to eliminate their left-wing
opposition and to suppress political and civil uprisings. Their plans
included the trade of sensitive information and state secrets, as
well as the kidnapping, torture and murder of their domestic foes and
their fellow countrymen, women and children, who left their
respective countries in exile over the poor and dangerous living
conditions. The genesis of the terror
operations
is said to trace back to Brazilian General Breno
Borges
Fortes,
who suggested the plan at the September 3rd,
1973 Conference Of American Armies in Caracas, but considering that
the corrupt U.S. [United
States of America] government,
and ThePowersThatBe who control that government, were involved, we
can safely assume that they were the impetus behind Operation
Condor.
Those
6 South American nations were not alone in their efforts. The U.S.
government privately
backed
the clandestine operations, both financially and militarily, for
their duration [SEE:
Operation
Charly].
Ecuador,
Colombia, Venezuela and Peru
later joined the efforts as well. The Italian and French governments
also provided assistance behind the scenes.
Operation
Condor
used
sheer violence in
order to
impose their agenda onto
the masses and onto
their
enemies. They had 3
main detention / torture centers:
► Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos: The national stadium of Chile. It has an official capacity of 47,000 people.
OPERATION CONDOR WAS A LONG TIME IN THE MAKING, BEGINNING DECADES EARLIER:
► In
1903,
the U.S. backed
Panama’s cessation from Colombia. The U.S. later profited from the
construction of the Panama
Canal.
► U.S.
military
troops
occupied Honduras from
1903
to 1925
in order to protect U.S. interests in the area.
► Beginning
in 1948,
Operation
Bootstrap
established a U.S. influence and military
base
in Latin America.
► In
1954,
the U.S. backed a coup
d’etat
in Guatemala, leading to a Guatemalan
civil war,
which lasted nearly 4
decades
[SEE:
Operation
PBFORTUNE,
Operation
PBHistory
and Operation
Washtub].
► The U.S. government overthrew Dominican Republic President Rafael Trujillo on May 3rd, 1961.
► The Brazilian military [backed by the U.S.] overthrew Brazilian President Joao Goulart in 1964.
► With
U.S. backing, Bolivian General Hugo
Banzar
took control of Bolivia in 1971,
through a series of coups.
► Backed
by the U.S.,
para-military forces loyal
to
Chilean
General
Augusto
Pinochet
bombed the Chilean Presidential Palace on September
11th,
1973
[another 9/11!], overthrowing
then-democratically-elected Chilean
President
Salvador
Allende
[SEE:
Operation
Colombo].
► With
U.S. backing, Argentinian
General
Jorge
Rafael
Videla
and his para-military forces seized power in Argentina on March
24th,
1976
[SEE:
The
Argentinian
Dirty War].
MAJOR EVENTS IN OPERATION CONDOR:
► The
“Caravan
Of Death”
was a Chilean Army death squad that operated from
September
30th to October
22nd of 1973.
They murdered 97
people in cold blood.
► Socialist
Party member Victor
Olea
Alegria
“disappeared”
on September
11th [remember,
the
zionists love
this date!]
of
1974.
► Chilean
General Carlos
Prats
was murdered by a car bomb on September
30th,
1974
in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
► Andres
Pascal
Allende,
President of the Revolutionary Left Movement, was assassinated in
Costa Rica in March
of 1976.
► Crecencio
Galanega
Hernandez
and Jesus
Cejas
Arias,
Cuban diplomats in Argentina, “disappeared”
on August
9th,
1976.
► Ex-Brazilian
President Juscelino
Kubitschek
was assassinated on August
22nd,
1976
in a car “accident.”
► Former
Chilean Minister and political activist Orlando
Letelier
and his assistant, Ronni
Moffitt,
were murdered by a car bomb on September
21st,
1976.
► Left-wing
opposition leaders Jorge
Zaffaroni
and Maria
Emilia
Islas
De
Zaffaroni
[of
the Tupamaros
National Liberation Movement]
were kidnapped in Buenos Aires by the Argentinian Army’s 601
Intelligence
Battalion
on September
29th,
1976.
► Chilean
Employment Minister Bernardo
Leighton
and his wife survived a failed assassination attempt on October
5th,
1976,
while in exile in Rome.
► After
being overthrown, ex-Brazilian President Joao
Goulart
died in his sleep on December
6th,
1976
after being poisoned.
► In
April
of 1977,
Las
Madres De La Plaza De Mayo
[“The Mothers Of The May Plaza”], a group of mothers whose
children has been abducted in Operation Condor, began publicly
demonstrating against the Argentinian military dictatorship. Several
of the groups members and leaders later “disappeared” and were
murdered.
► In
1977,
Argentina enlisted the help of German NAZI [National
Socialist German
Workers’ Party]
war
criminal Klaus
Barbie
and Italian Operation
Gladio
operative Stefano
Delle
Chiaie
to help assist Bolivian General Luis
Garcie
Meza
Tejada
in his “Cocaine
Coup”
in Bolivia.
► Dagmar
Ingrid
Hagelin,
a 17-year-old
Swedish National, was kidnapped and shot by a member of the
Argentinian Navy in 1977.
He later “disappeared.”
► In
November
of 1978,
an event known as “O
Sequestro Dos Uruguaios”
[“The
Kidnapping Of The Uruguayans”]
took place in Uruguay. The Brazilian military crossed into Uruguay
and kidnapped Uruguayan political activists Universindo
Rodriguez,
Lilian
Celiberti
and their two small children, Camilo
[age
5]
and Francesca
[age
3].
Tipped off by an anonymous phone call, reporter Luis
Claudio
Cunha
and photographer Joao
Baptista
Scalco
from Veja
Magazine
were informed of the activists’ disappearances. They publicly
reported on the kidnappings, exposing the clandestine
operations
and saved the lives of the activists, who were held in captivity
until democracy was restored in Uruguay in 1984.
► The U.S. backed a civil
war
in El Salvador from
1979
to 1992
[SEE:
Operation
Kufire
and Operation
Kugown].
► In
the late
1970’s,
Operacion
Silencio
[“Operation
Silence”]
was initiated. It was a clandestine Chilean operation which
was designed
to impede investigations into Operation Condor by Chilean judges, by
forcefully removing witnesses from the country. It went on for
decades.
► In
the 1970’s,
the U.S. backed a revolutionary
war
in Nicaragua, leading to the Contra
War.
The U.S. further
attempted
to overthrow the Nicaraguan
government
until 1990.
► Edgardo
Enriquez,
leader of the Chilean Revolutionary
Left Movement,
“disappeared”
in the late
1970’s,
along with fellow members Jorge
Fuentes,
Alexei
Jaccard
and Ricardo
Ramirez.
► The
Uruguayan military dictatorship threatened to assassinate U.S.
Congressman Edward
Koch
for impeding Operation Condor.
► Renown
poet Juan
Gelman’s
son and pregnant daughter-in-law were
imprisoned in Uruguay. Their baby was born in prison and confiscated
by the Uruguayan military.
THE AFTERMATH OF OPERATION CONDOR:
Operation
Condor
“officially”
came to a close following The
Falklands War,
when Argentina finally ousted its military dictatorship in 1983
and installed a democratically-elected government [the U.S. using war
to “spread
democracy,”
... sound
familiar?];
though the operations were not completely
over [SEE:
Operation
Central].
The operation permanently destabilized Latin America, leading to decades of violence and unrest that continue to this day. [SEE: The 2002 Venezuelan Coup D’etat and The 2014 Venezuelan Protests].
While
nearly all of those who participated in these sickening displays of
human rights abuses and crimes against humanity have
gotten of scot-free, there were some exceptions:
► Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is facing extradition to Chile and criminal prosecution for his role in the 1973 Chilean coup d’etat [SEE: The Dirty War In Argentina and The Salvadoran Civil War].
FURTHER READING:
Stay
conscious my friends.
~ Merit Freeman
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