Operation Condor - A Holocaust

The South American Holocaust - Operación Cóndor was a campaign of political repressions involving assassination and intelligence operations officially implemented in 1975 by the right-wing dictatorships of the Southern Cone of South America. The program aimed to eradicate left-wing and socialist influence and ideas and to control active or potential opposition movements against the usually conservative governments. Due to its clandestine nature, the precise number of deaths directly attributable to Operation Condor will likely never be known, but it is reported to have caused over sixty thousand victims[1], possibly even more.[2][3][4]

Condor's key members were the right-wing military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil, with Ecuador and Peru joining later in more peripheral roles.[5] These nations were ruled by dictators such as Jorge Rafael Videla, Augusto Pinochet, Ernesto Geisel, Hugo Banzer, and Alfredo Stroessner. The United States provided some communications services for the operation and it has been suggested that the country was more deeply involved.

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[bapyou]

@Jsledge85 "Hitler . . . also held the capitalist and aristocratic classes in equal contempt"

He wasn't too contemptuous of the aristocratic capitalist Krupp family was he. Krupp industries fueled the German war machine.

Fascism is all about nativist, nationalistic tendencies and war-making. Find a copy of Franz Neumann's 'Behemoth.' Neumann was a German Jew who escaped Germany in the '30s. He knew German society from the inside. He'll set you straight about Hitler's propaganda.

[Jsledge85]

@bapyou Hitler vocally condemned Communist and Social Democrats, but he also held the capitalist and aristocratic classes in equal contempt, since he believed liberalism was responsible for the economic exploitation and cultural morass that plagued the German people. Hitler desired to create a "warrior state," a mobolized national community composed of classless citizens bound together by a commonly shared conviction in principles of National Socialism, and racial and national solidarity.

[pulsatingremedy]

@Jsledge85

I still have no idea what you are trying to say.

[lanuevagranada]

@Jsledge85 personally I hate with all my heart both the left-wing FARC and the right-wing Paramilitary forces, both have damaged this country for far too long. By the way, this is a common sentiment, we are sick of violence. peace.

[Jsledge85]

@pulsatingremedy Read the asinine comment I wrote that reply in response to, before passing judgement. Furthermore, it is difficult to elucidate a comment with the word limit imposed by YouTube, especially when attempting to describe complexity of the interventionist oriented political economic systems of Latin American governments during the military dictatorships of the later half of the twentieth century.

[pulsatingremedy]

@Jsledge85

You are rambling.

[Jsledge85]

@pulsatingremedy There Communist, good commie is one that's dead. It had to be done, you seem to be too naive to understanding the compelling political necessity of silencing the Marxist who were causing so much social upheaval.

[Jsledge85]

@LoLiTzOmg The military dictatorships of the 1970s and 1980s were between a proverbial rock and a hard place. Marxist revolutionaries had to be silenced to prevent more social unrest and suppress Communism. These dictatorships didn't utilize a "Communist economy." They governed countries with 'managed economies,' private ownership allowed, but the government intervened through price controls, creation of nationalized industry, tariffs, central banking, and import substitution initiatives.

[Jsledge85]

Propaganda! South America was simply becoming overrun by Marxist-Leninist in the 1970s as result of indigenious political/economic problems and covert assistance from Cuba and the USSR. It is not suprising military dictatorships followed, in order to avoid possible revolution. It is a naive assumption of liberal society, counter-revolution can be done democratically and without the expense of human life. Freedom has a price tag, but it usually cost less than life under Stalinist dictatorships.

[Jsledge85]

@lanuevagranada I don't understand how Colombians simultaneously condemn FARC and opposse the ACCU. It seems to me that an individual's sympathies lie why the anti-government guerrillas or pro-government paramilitaries. COIN operations against out-of-uniform guerrillas and campesino communities who support the guerrillas isn't pretty, but it is necessary. Surely a dual force comprised of the military, the legitimate arms of the state, and paramilitaries is more effective than either one alone?