The CIA, the US State Department and Henry Kissinger specifically, spearhead Operation Condor to direct the intelligence services of the various South American dictatorships they had established, and/or served as indispensable kingmaker for, in order to target their repression onto anti-capitalist political activists, feminists and labor leaders.
Classic US imperialism. Sadly not much we can do against it
Voting for more and more people that prioritize fixing the major problems at home over creating problems for others would be a good start.
I mean I would if I could. I don’t live in the US so whyat I do has no effect on this subject.
fun fact: in brazil the us-backed dictatorship’s records were never unsealed and most of the people responsible never punished.
we don’t actually know how many people were killed, dissappeared or tortured. just a general sense it was brutal af, and much much worse than the official figures, but no way to actually know.
