Operation Condor and the United States: Torture, Death Squads and Echoes in the New Millennium

Abstract

Since the US declared in the Monroe Doctrine that Latin America was under the powerful nation's hegemony, it has backed ruthless dictatorships and corporate dominance in the Western Hemisphere. During the 1970s Operation Condor emerged from nations in the Southern Cone of Latin America as a means to destroy subversive Marxist ideology from expanding in the Western Hemisphere. Operation Condor grew into a transnational system of disappearance, torture and murder with the support of the US military and CIA. After the September 11, 2001 attacks in the US, the George W. Bush administration and subsequent US administrations brought the sinister and brutal techniques of Operation Condor into the twenty-first century in its so-called global war on terrorism. The US expanded the horrors of Operation Condor out of the shadows and established these practices as mainstream imperialist foreign policy.