military

us counterinsurgency:

  • counterinsurgency is against guerrillas and revolutionaries

  • U.S. worked with anticommunist Latin American actors

  • 1960 U.S supported multiple coups

  • a period that saw a wide of torture, disappearance, and death squads( occur through the reg.)

Argentina:

  • Dirty War(1976-1983)

Chile:

National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)

Operation condor:

  • cooperation between military dictatorships of chile, Argentina, Uruguay,, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY, AND BOLIVIA

  • PROVIDE INFORMATION OF

  • MEET NOVEMBER TO CREATE OPERATION CONDOR

  • ADDED A TRANS-NATION

  • GOAL: ELIMINATE MARXISTS

  • CHILES DINA HEAD ORGANIZER

  • (1975-1983)

  • manuel contrearas: leading figure of Dina and served as a cia asset

us involvement

  • worked with condor under nixon (1969-74) and ford(1974-77)

  • us did not stop condor operation



different way the U.S became involved in Latin American during Cold War

  • bay of bigs

  • blockades(Cuba)

  • money alliance for progress

  • economic ties (bananas)

  • funding dictatorship salvador

  • communism to justify intervention

  • direct training

  • DINA( know about it but didn’t stop)

  • 1973 coups (Chile)

  • Assassinations