Operation Condor

Operation Condor: The Pact That Terrorized a Continent exposes the clandestine machinery of fear that united South America's military dictatorships in the 1970s and '80s, tracing how intelligence networks coordinated across borders to hunt down political exiles, turning supposed refuge into peril and entire nations into surveillance zones. Drawing on archival breakthroughs and the stories of emblematic victims, Francesca Lessa and Sebastián Santana Camargo illuminate not only the reach of these regimes' transnational terror but also the quiet, unyielding courage of families, lawyers, and investigators who refused to let the disappeared vanish from memory. Brought into English by Alejandro Reyes and enriched by Santana Camargo's haunting illustrations, this edition of the acclaimed Plan Cóndor project marries forensic historical research with intimate human testimony to deliver a stark, resonant narrative of repression, resistance, and the long, stubborn pursuit of justice. This is history as witness: a chilling account of how dictators learned to collaborate across borders-and how ordinary people fought back with nothing but memory and determination.