Nonetheless, matters are moving forward and the search for truth and justice is being slowly advanced. In recent years, the disclosure of state archives is helping to establish the truth about these terrible events, but the families of the victims are still waiting for complete justice to be found. In some cases, people had to wait many years or rely on the support from their second nationality country, such as the ongoing Italian trial, in order to have some hope of compensation.
A number of Latin American countries involved seem to still be haunted by the ghosts of a bitter past and have been reticent to use all the information in their possession to do justice. Operations were not fully contained within any single state, but they crossed international borders and even reached as far as Europe. Under this initiative, thousands of people were kidnapped, tortured, forcibly disappeared, and murdered. Key members were the governments of Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil, and Bolivia with Peru and Ecuador episodically participating. On October 2016, an Italian tribunal asked for a life sentence against Jorge Troccoli, a member of Uruguayan secret services, accused of torture during Operation Condor – an intelligence network constructed by several Latin American countries during the 1970s to fight alleged Marxist subversion.
To download a PDF version of this article, click here. By Debora Iozzi, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
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