From: Portside
Operation
Condor was a coordinated effort by dictatorships in Latin American
countries, to track down and kill political opponents in their various
countries—an effort that was deliberately aided, particularly during the
mid-to-late ‘70s, by the CIA.
by Dave Lindorff
December 27, 2013
A few weeks ago, we ran a piece criticizing a subtly deceptive article in the New York Times
that made light of a wave of exhumations of popular leftist figures in
Latin America. Quoting unnamed “scholars,” the paper’s Latin American
correspondent Simon Romero suggested the forensic digs may be the secularized continuation of
customs from the time of early Christianity, when a vibrant trade
involved the body parts of saints.
That, in fact, is nonsense. The purportedly “natural”, “accidental”,
or “suicide-related” deaths of such important left-leaning figures as
Nobel Laureate Pablo Neruda, Brazil’s President Joao Goulart and Chile’s
President Salvador Allende all occurred during the rule of various
rightist dictators.
The re-examination of evidence in these cases is based therefore on
strong skepticism about the “official” narratives of their deaths. This
skepticism, in turn, is based on a well-documented history of thousands
of cases of political murder in the region.
Far from looking for relics to sell, investigators are looking for
evidence that these deaths were actually assassinations, the work of
fearful tyrants anxious to prevent the victims’ return to power. Now
one result is in, and it’s explosive.
Truth Commission: Juscelino Kubitschek Assassinated
Investigators from Brazil’s Truth Commission, looking into the 1976
car crash of former leftist Brazilian president Juscelino Kubitschek and
his limo driver, have discovered a bullet fragment lodged in the
driver’s skull. This finding, the Commission ruled, along with other
evidence, suggests that Kubitschek was murdered—most likely at the
behest of the leaders of the CIA-backed military coup that also ousted
his successor Joao Goulart. MORE
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