Operation Condor: Former Argentine junta leader jailed
Former Argentine junta leader Reynaldo Bignone has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crimes committed under Operation Condor - a conspiracy between South America's dictators in the 1970s.
Bignone and 14 other military officers were found guilty by a court in Argentina after a three-year trial.
Many left-wing activists were kidnapped and killed in Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia.
Human rights activists have hailed the ruling.
Since the trial started in 2013, five defendants, including Jorge Rafael Videla, the head of Argentina's junta during its first three years, have died.
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36403909Operation Condor - the facts
Co-operation between the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil in the 1970s and 1980s
Eliminated opponents and leftists across the continent
The "targets" were interrogated and tortured in seven clandestine prisons
Best known case was the 1976 assassination in Washington DC of Orlando Letelier, foreign minister under Chile's socialist President Salvador Allende
Operation Condor had 376 victims: 177 Uruguayans, 72 Argentines, 64 Chileans, 25 Paraguayans, 15 Peruvians, 12 Bolivians, five Brazilians, three Cubans, two Americans and a Spaniard (source: UNESCO)
Not a high-nterest story I admit, but good that the Beeb (BBC) has a wide net of reporting.
Fox News per the AP:
A look at the Operation Condor conspiracy in South America
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/27/look-at-operation-condor-conspiracy-in-south-america.html
Repeats close to the same from the BBC.
