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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 26 January 2017

Italian court reaches final verdict on ‘Operation Condor’ trial

An Italian court has convicted eight former South American political and military leaders to life imprisonment for their involvement in the forced disappearance of Italian citizens between 1973 and 1978. The crimes were committed as part of ‘Operation Condor’, the campaign of political repression and state-sponsored terrorism carried out by the right-wing military dictatorships that were in power at the time in the Southern Cone.

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