The deadly
multi-state Operation Condor intelligence effort was designed to
destroy the opposition to U.S.-backed right-wing regimes in Latin
America.
The
highly-anticipated sentencing in a 9-year-old trial are finally
expected to be announced Tuesday in Rome as 28 military officers from
Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Peru have been found guilty of human
rights abuses and forced disappearances of Italian nationals during
the 1970s and 1980s.
Uruguay's
Vice President Raul Sendic announced the date Sunday after one month
of hearings in the court presided over by Judge Evelina Canale.
The
investigation, opened by Italian attorney Giancarlo Capaldo,
initially included 140 people accused of human rights abuses, but the
list was eventually downsized to 28, as most of them had died or were
found too old to be tried, reported EFE.
The
prosecutor asked for life sentences for 27 of the officers, and the
acquittal of Ricardo Eliseo Chavez Dominguez because he was found
innocent during the trial.
On Dec. 28,
2016, former president and military dictator of Uruguay from 1982 to
1985, Gregorio Alvarez, died while serving a sentence for human
rights abuses during his reign.
The deadly
multi-state Operation Condor intelligence operation was designed to
destroy opposition to U.S.-backed right-wing regimes in Latin
America. Plan Condor operations are thought to have led to the death
or disappearance of 50,000 people throughout Latin America during the
1970s and 1980s.
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