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As if this wasn't already known! clip - The declassified documents show that U.S. intervention in Latin America <https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2149208.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A413ed858c691957408e6bf49bca8c9ac> went well beyond giving “a little encouragement” to Latin American military regimes, as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger put it in 1976 <https://www.intel.gov/argentina-declassification-project/history>. Argentina was the operations center for Plan Condor <https://unredacted.com/2019/04/12/u-s-completes-historic-transfer-of-47000-declassified-documents-to-argentine-government-frinformsum-4-12-2019/>, a U.S-organized alliance <https://www.notimerica.com/politica/noticia-operacion-condor-plan-condor-20151109112936.html> between the dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, created in 1975 and operational until around 1980. Fearing the spread of communism across the Americas, the Ford administration offered these rightist military regimes everything from counterinsurgency training and financial assistance to intelligence briefings <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/12/world/americas/argentina-dictatorship-cia-documents.html> . With U.S. support, Argentina’s junta kidnapped leftists, dissidents, union leaders and anyone who looked remotely like a threat. They tortured detainees, and then threw them alive and conscious out of airplanes <https://www.argentina.gob.ar/noticias/donde-estan-los-aviones-de-los-vuelos-de-la-muerte> into the River Plate, near Buenos Aires, or dumped their bodies in mass graves. Pregnant women were killed after giving birth, their babies adopted by the families of childless generals. Neighbors under police surveillance informed on other neighbors to appease the junta, then were abducted and tortured anyway. https://theconversation.com/truth-justice-and-declassification-secret-archives-show-us-helped-argentine-military-wage-dirty-war-that-killed-30-000-115611 _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
