The Condor Years

A “compelling and shocking account” of a brutal campaign of repression in Latin America, based on interviews and previously secret documents ( The Miami Herald ). Throughout the 1970s, six Latin American governments, led by Chile, formed a military alliance called Operation Condor to carry out kidnappings, torture, and political assassinations across three continents. It was an early “war on terror” initially encouraged by the CIA—which later backfired on the United States. Hailed by Foreign Aff