Operation Condor
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Sep 16, 2026
Chris BakerHOST
What kind of influence does that have on Chile?
Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
The United States made this in Panama with many, many different generals in Latin America about the plan, you know, Condor Plan.
Chris BakerHOST
Yeah.
Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
And this time Pinochet learned a lot about this school.
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Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
The situation was that in our town, we have in the center of Santiago, we have the palace of the government.
Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
You know, it's a tiny palace.
Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
And the people saw like... like what's so strange that the army move like fast in the street, but all don't begin in the Santiago, all beginning in Valparaiso, in the port, because we had been support from the Brazil Navy or the Condor plan, remember? So in this situation, when all the Chilean army, They made a plan and made a circle with all the tanks, all the things, with the airplane, all the things.
Guillermo de VergaraGUEST
We try to order the country.
Pamela FuentesHOST
This is Pamela Fuentes, host of the channel and editor of New Books Network en Español.
Pamela FuentesHOST
Today, we'll be talking to Francesca Leza and Sebastian Santana about Operation Condor, the pact that terrorized a continent.
Pamela FuentesHOST
This book was published this year, 2026, by Casa Carline in their Historia collection.
Pamela FuentesHOST
Francesca, Sebastian, welcome to the show.
Pamela FuentesHOST
So for those that are interested, you can find it in these two languages and I think more, but we can talk about that later.
Pamela FuentesHOST
I'd like to begin by borrowing a few lines from the author's note.
Pamela FuentesHOST
And I quote, This book grew up of the collaboration between Francesca Alessa, an Italian researcher and international expert on Operation Condor, and Sebastian Santana, a Uruguayan-Argentine illustrator and visual artist.
Pamela FuentesHOST
It is also the result of an exchange of perspectives, information, and research studies that began more than three years ago.
Pamela FuentesHOST
This is Pamela Fuentes, host of the channel and editor of New Books Network en Español.
Pamela FuentesHOST
Today we'll be talking to Francesca Leza and Sebastian Santana about Operation Condor, the pact that terrorized a continent.
Pamela FuentesHOST
This book was published this year, 2026, by Casa Carline in their Historia collection.
Pamela FuentesHOST
Francesca, Sebastian, welcome to the show.
Pamela FuentesHOST
I've read it in Spanish and in English, so for those that are interested, you can find it in these two languages, and I think more, but we can talk about that later.
Pamela FuentesHOST
I'd like to begin by borrowing a few lines from the author's note, and I quote...
Pamela FuentesHOST
This book grew up of the collaboration between Francesca Alessa, an Italian researcher and international expert on Operation Condor, and Sebastian Santana, a Uruguayan-Argentine illustrator and visual artist.
Pamela FuentesHOST
It is also the result of an exchange of perspectives, information, and research studies that began more than three years ago.
PeteGUEST
And if everybody's interested, you can go online.
PeteGUEST
It's called Operation Condor.
PeteGUEST
And Operation Condor was a program devised by the CIA for the purposes of stopping these leftist movements in the Western Hemisphere.
PeteGUEST
This is ultimately what knocked on, and then to overthrow the government in Chile, like I said, numerous governments got overthrown.
PeteGUEST
And the Operation Condor aspect in Mexico resulted in a collaboration between the intelligence services which go by the Mexican acronym of DFS.
PeteGUEST
So you got the DFS, which was their premier law enforcement and intelligence, like the FBI-CIA combo.
PeteGUEST
They didn't differentiate.
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PeteGUEST
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Peter LevendaGUEST
They took oaths and they fomented revolt in different parts of the world against whatever the establishment government was, if it was deemed not to be anti-communist enough.
Peter LevendaGUEST
So you had them involved with Operation Condor in South America.
Peter LevendaGUEST
And Condor was Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, all the countries in the Southern Cone involved in anti-communist activities that were being masterminded by Nazi war criminals like Klaus Barbie in Bolivia and like Schaefer in Chile, the group that I investigated in 79.
Peter LevendaGUEST
So you have this tentacle operation, and we tend not to look at it because World War II is over.
Thomas777GUEST
That's the way to understand this.
Thomas777GUEST
That's the way to understand the totality of what became Operation Condor.
Thomas777GUEST
That's the way to understand the situation in Argentina, which was a lot more murky and conspiratorial than that of Chile.
Thomas777GUEST
I mean, that'll warrant the discussion all unto itself.
John Manuel AriasGUEST
And in the same way that the Make America Great Again movement exploited and awakened really intense feelings of homophobia, xenophobia, transphobia.
John Manuel AriasGUEST
It happened throughout the entire Western hemisphere as well, in a way that Franco or Hitler or Mussolini awakened this beast of fascism and control and eventually violence, right? We see in the CIA Operation Condor, and we can see the way that the United States or in that era, Europe, use these awakenings of control and conservatism also as a means of colonialism, right? How do we see right now Marco Rubio calling all these very far-right leaders for a meeting in the United States? And how does that look like Operation Condor that happened with the CIA in the 70s and the 80s here in Latin America?
Beth GolayHOST
So this novel jumps around a lot in terms of location and timelines.
Beth GolayHOST
I'm wondering, is the order in which we read the book the order in which you wrote it? And how do you keep track of the details of time and place and such?
ThomasGUEST
That's the way to understand this.
ThomasGUEST
That's the way to understand the totality of what became Operation Condor.
ThomasGUEST
That's the way to understand the situation in Argentina, which was a lot more murky and conspiratorial than that of Chile.
ThomasGUEST
I mean, that would warrant the discussion all unto itself.
Sami ShahHOST
ASIS established a station in Santiago to assist the CIA because apparently Australia's contribution to international democracy was not limited to, you know, occasionally remembering to vote.
Sami ShahHOST
Across South America, dictatorships coordinated surveillance, kidnapping, torture and assassination through Operation Condor flourished.
Sami ShahHOST
It was a cross-border interference network.
Sami ShahHOST
Except, instead of Russian bots sharing divisive memes, it involved secret police sharing addresses, surveillance files and assassination targets.
Zach FoustHOST
I guess we're friends with Japan.
Zach FoustHOST
Who are we friends with? Is it South America because we threw them over with Operation Condor in the 80s? Is it Canada? It doesn't seem like it.
Zach FoustHOST
Is it Mexico? It doesn't seem like it.
Zach FoustHOST
We're targeting Colombia.
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