Operation Condor: State Terrorism in the Southern Cone of the Americas

Formed in the 1970s, Operation Condor enabled the repression of political opponents of governments hostile military dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia and Brazil, beyond national borders, held under complete contempt for the norms of international regulations that guaranteed protection of political refugees seeking asylum in foreign countries. This paper reviews the literature-based Del Horror Archive, discovered in Paraguay in 1992, confirmed that the actions taken by the military governments that, through constant human rights violations in regard to treatment of the politically persecuted, and through the institutionalization of terror in a systematic way, been very successful in achieving the proposed goal, namely, dislocation of left movements in the region through the extermination of subversive Latin Americans anywhere in the continent. Finally, we make some considerations about the real Brazilian participation in Operation Condor, which was never officially admitted, however, using the available literature as a means of investigation, it is true.