Plan Condor

As Chilean Left Struggles to Preserve Memory, Right-Wing Pinera Government Works to Erase It

SANTIAGO, CHILE — It is clear that former state-employed torturers have become emboldened since the electoral triumph of Chilean President Sebastian Pinera. While last year’s presidential election illustrated the Chilean left’s disillusion with the center-left coalitions — resulting in a low voter turnout and a right-wing victory — for Chilean memory groups, the events now unfolding in the wake of that victory constitute a severe threat to Chile’s collective memory, the quest for justice, and the constant efforts to discover the fate of the disappeared.

Nobel Laureate: “Plan Condor Should Never Have Happened”

In Bolivia, a CIA-backed military coup led to the overthrow of leftist President Juan Torres. Following the coup, dictator Hugo Banzer had over 2,000 political opponents arrested without trial, tortured, raped and executed. teleSUR | May 28, 2016 Adolfo Perez Esquivel voiced his opposition to celebrations over the conviction of 15 military officials in Argentina. […]

Marking Brazil’s Brutal US-Backed Military Coup 52 Years Later

teleSUR – March 31, 2016 As the possibility of a new threat against democracy looms over Brazil in the form of an unlawful impeachment against leftist President Dilma Rousseff, Brazilians remember a coup that kicked off a brutal 20-year-long military dictatorship. Similar military coups would follow in Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. Together with the […]