Operation Condor

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/operation-condor

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the founding agreement?Signed in Santiago, Chile, in 1975, formalizing cooperation among security forces
2. What is the key participating states?Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador
3. Why did the countries join Operation Condor?They were worried about leftist groups, unions, and students, and thought these groups could threaten their power, so they decided to team up to stop them.
4. How did Operation Condor affect people who left their countries?People who fled to other countries were still tracked by the plan; they could be kidnapped or harmed even far away, because the plan shared information across borders.

Transnational Repression: When a government targets individuals outside its borders to silence dissent or exert control.
Extrajudicial Killings: The killing of a person by government forces without lawful authority or judicial approval.
Rendition: The transfer of a person from one country to another, often for interrogation or prosecution, sometimes outside legal norms.
State-Sponsored Terrorism: The support given by a national government to non-state actors or directly by state agents to commit acts of terrorism.