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The Condor Years: How Pinochet And His Allies Brought Terrorism To Three Continents
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John Dinges (Goodreads Author)
The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents reveals the covert actions of an international intelligence network responsible for South America's worst human rights abuses.
Paperback, 332 pages
Published
June 1st 2005
by New Press, The
(first published 2004)
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A very grim but essential book about the cooperation between the dictatorships in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia in the '70s to track down, apprehend, torture, and murder political dissidents. Operation Condor was a centralized intelligence gathering point aimed at getting dissidents who fled their own country into neighboring ones in South America. The official reason given was to stop leftist groups like the Tupamaros, but by the time Operation Condor started their had already...more
A detailed report on the coordinated effort by 1970s South American military dictatorships to wipe out leftist opposition, this book has a clear message about the devastating results that follow when governments justify human rights abuses by citing the greater good of counter-terrorism. In an effort to be as thorough as possible, the author retells portions of the narrative from a variety of angles. The thoroughness makes it difficult to keep up with all of the names, dates, and other details...more
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I am a journalist who writes mostly about Latin America, dictators, intelligence agencies (usually secret ones) and human rights. I have a previous career as a theologian--not incompatible with journalism. I am the Godfrey Lowell Cabot professor of international journalism at Columbia University. Previously I worked for the Washington Post and NPR (as foreign editor and managing editor at the latt...more
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