Operation Condor Essay

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American foreign policy is usually associated with the prevailing analogy of the United States serving as the world police. When gross human rights violations occur it is often expected that America speaks out and condemn the actions and perpetrators. Its people based republic and democracy is revered and has been suggested and implemented in places where harsh dictatorships and autocracies had previously prevailed. However, in truth, US involvement and its need to push the “only working democracy” in places where countries that are deemed in need of help by the US actually cultivate their own working government's separate from the pressing ideology of the US that are actually successful predating their involvement. And when these differing …show more content…

Prior to his Chilean President Salvador Allende’s election, who ran on a ticket of socialist economic reforms, the US government spent millions of dollars in Anti-Allende propaganda and attempted to reason with military forces to stage a coup against him, not even caring of the ramifications of the destabilization of Chile and the ripple effect it would have on other Southern Cone countries. Considering the military dictator Augusto Pinochet’s ascension to power being riddled with gross violations of human rights including state sponsored torture against its citizens the connotations were that because the US prioritized its own security over an entire continent, “there is no doubt that Condor's ruthless operations against political opposition advanced the security agenda of the U.S. national security establishment in its war against communism and revolution in Latin America.” (Mcsherry, 41)
The effects on Paraguay were noted in what was deemed as “The Archives of Terror” which were seized documents of suppressive and torturous acts committed by the military government against citizens, a recurring theme from Operation Condor. Discussed in the papers were the connections between the Juntas, which were the military dictatorship regime in “Numerous

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