Operation Condor Trial in Italy to Finally End After 9 Years

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Operation Condor Trial in Italy to Finally End After 9 Years




Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (L) greets U.S Foreign Secretary Henry Kissinger (R) in
1976 as Operation Condor was in full swing. | Photo: Reuters

Published 15 January 2017


The deadly multi-state Operation Condor intelligence effort was designed to destroy the opposition to U.S.-backed right-wing regimes in Latin America.

The highly-anticipated sentencing in a 9-year-old trial are finally expected to be announced Tuesday in Rome as 28 military officers from Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Peru have been found guilty of human rights abuses and forced disappearances of Italian nationals during the 1970s and 1980s.

Uruguay's Vice President Raul Sendic announced the date Sunday after one month of hearings in the court presided over by Judge Evelina Canale.

The investigation, opened by Italian attorney Giancarlo Capaldo, initially included 140 people accused of human rights abuses, but the list was eventually downsized to 28, as most of them had died or were found too old to be tried, reported EFE.

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