Domestic Version:- Operation Condor was the name of the secret alliance of
Latin American dictatorships created in the 1970's to wipe out left-wing opposition both at home and abroad.
This film is the result of an in-depth investigation of three main sources: official U.S. declassified material,
documentation from the secret service and secret police of Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil held at
the Palace of Justice in Asunción, Peru - known as the Archive of Terror - and more than 40 interviews with people in Latin America and the United States. People considered even remotely subversive suffered at the
hands of the brutal military regimes. Victims give heart-wrenching accounts of their suffering at the hands of torturers. The film also enters the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the U.S. Army
School of the Americas, based at Fort Benning. This institution specializes in training Latin American soldiers
in combat, counter-insurgency, and counter-narcotics. Created in Panama in 1946, it was the training ground for
notorious dictators and their henchmen responsible for some of the most heinous human rights violations in all
of Latin America. The film also shows excerpts of videos used by the former leader of Chile, Augusto Pinochet's,
secret police to indoctrinate its members. For Public Performance or Broadcast Licenses, visit www.swpictures.co.uk
