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March 6, 2013

Landmark "Operation Condor" Trial Opens in Argentina 
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Argentina has opened a landmark trial of figures involved in Operation
Condor, a coordinated effort by Latin American military rulers to target
their political opponents in the 1970s and 1980s. With U.S. backing,
dictators and generals in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay
and Brazil collaborated to hunt down and assassinate dissidents opposed
to their rule. The Argentina case accuses 25 suspects of violating human
rights, including former dictators Jorge Videla and Reynaldo Bignone.
The trial marks the first specially focused on Operation Condor and its
victims across Latin America.

 

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