Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network: Operation Condor Author(s): J. Patrice McSherry Source: Latin American Perspectives , Jan., 2002, Vol. 29, No. 1, Brazil: The Hegemonic Process in Political and Cultural Formation (Jan., 2002), pp. 38-60 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3185071 JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Sage Publications, Inc. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Latin American Perspectives This content downloaded from 35.176.47.6 on Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:59:17 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Tracking the Origins of a State Terror Network Operation Condor by J. Patrice McSherry Operation Condor was a secret intelligence and operations system created in the 1970s through which the South American military regimes coordinated intelligence information and seized, tortured, and executed political oppo- nents in combined cross-border operations. Condor's key members were Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil, later joined by Ecuador and Peru. In Condor operations, combined military and paramilitary commandos "disappeared" refugees who had fled coups and repression in their own countries and subjected them to barbaric tortures and death.