Operação Condor: a participação brasileira

Abstract

The course of the ideological confront between the United States and the Soviet Union, known as Cold War, reflected in the Southern Cone countries by the US funding military dictatorships in these countries during the sixties and seventies. In addition to the imposition of such regimes in such ideological conflict blossomed an anticommunist feeling in the Southern Cone. It was through the military regimes added to that anticommunist feeling that the repressive alliance known as Operation Condor (1975) took place among Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The Brazilian participation in this operation happened cautiously, different from the actions of other countries, due to the fact that Brazil was experiencing a period of democratization, and had controlled the internal dissent since the beginning of the military regime (1964). Thus, we use the case of the Uruguayans’ kidnap to prove the Brazilian participation in Operation Condor.