Operation Condor
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Operation Condor was a campaign of political repression by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America, involving intelligence operations, coups, and assassinations of left-wing
Jorge Rafael Videla
Flag with images of those who disappeared during a demonstration in Buenos Aires to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the 1976 coup in Argentina
Lilian Celiberti during a speech in the World Social Forum. Porto Alegre, 2010
Disappeared people in art at Parque por la Paz at Villa Grimaldi in Santiago de Chile
Death flights
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Death flights are a form of extrajudicial killing in which victims are dropped to their deaths from airplanes or helicopters and their bodies land in oceans, large rivers or mountains. Death flights h
Operation Condor
…such as prominent union leader Marcelo Santuray in Argentina or general Carlos Prats in Chile. Condor operatives participated in tactics such as death flights. In Chile, anyone suspected of being a communist sympathizer could become regarded as a terrorist by Pinochet's government and targeted by Operation…
Short Skyvan 'PA-51', one of the original aircraft used for "death flights", now on display at Museo Sitio de Memoria ESMA
Death flights victims during the Algerian War were known as crevettes Bigeard ("Bigeard's shrimp"), after French General Marcel Bigeard (pictured)